GNU date tutorial (Linux command line series)
Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullahdate 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.
Basic usage
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.