date is part of the GNU Coreutils or core system utilities on a GNU/Linux system. It is a command line program that tells you the current date.
Just type the command date on the terminal:
[agronesia]$ date Sun Jun 8 02:11:51 PDT 2008
It will display the date according to the system’s time zone, in that case PDT.
I use Notepad++ for my text editing need. To write my blog entries, I’m even handcoding my HTML using it!
It has neat features that makes it superior to Notepad such as a tabbed interface, internationalization (Unicode support and UI translations), and lots of text manipulation tools (HTML escaping, to name one).
One essential feature I miss when editing HTML using it is the tag wrapping functionality. That’s what the buttons in Wordpress’ HTML mode do:
After asking around in the forum, I finally found the plugin I needed for Notepad++, WebEdit.