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.\"	$NetBSD: date.1,v 1.47 2018/01/27 18:59:38 wiz Exp $
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.\"     @(#)date.1	8.3 (Berkeley) 4/28/95
.\"
.Dd January 25, 2018
.Dt DATE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm date
.Nd display or set date and time
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl ajnu
.Op Fl d Ar date
.Op Fl r Ar seconds
.Op Cm + Ns Ar format
.Sm off
.Oo Oo Oo Oo Oo Oo
.Ar CC Oc
.Ar yy Oc
.Ar mm Oc
.Ar dd Oc
.Ar HH Oc Ar MM Oo
.Li \&. Ar SS Oc Oc
.Sm on
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
displays the current date and time when invoked without arguments.
Providing arguments will format the date and time in a user-defined
way or set the date.
Only the superuser may set the date.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl a
Use
.Xr adjtime 2
to change the local system time slowly,
maintaining it as a monotonically increasing function.
.Fl a
implies
.Fl n .
.It Fl d Ar date
Parse the provided human-described date and time and display the result without
actually changing the system clock.
(See
.Xr parsedate 3
for examples.)
.It Fl j
Parse the provided canonical representation of date and time (described below)
and display the result without actually changing the system clock.
.It Fl n
The utility
.Xr timed 8
is used to synchronize the clocks on groups of machines.
By default, if
.Xr timed 8
is running,
.Nm
will set the time on all of the machines in the local group.
The
.Fl n
option stops
.Nm
from setting the time for other than the current machine.
.It Fl r Ar seconds
Print out the date and time that is
.Ar seconds
from the Epoch.
.It Fl u
Display or set the date in UTC (universal) time.
.El
.Pp
An operand with a leading plus
.Pq Cm +
sign signals a user-defined format
string which specifies the format in which to display the date and time.
The format string may contain any of the conversion specifications described
in the
.Xr strftime 3
manual page, as well as any arbitrary text.
A <newline> character is always output after the characters
specified by the format string.
The format string for the default display is:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y
.Ed
.Pp
If an operand does not have a leading plus sign, it is interpreted as
a value for setting the system's notion of the current date and time.
The canonical representation for setting the date and time is:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact -offset indent
.It Ar CC
The first two digits of the year (the century).
.It Ar yy
The second two digits of the year.
If
.Ar yy
is specified, but
.Ar CC
is not, a value for
.Ar yy
between 69 and 99 results in a
.Ar CC
value of 19.
Otherwise, a
.Ar CC
value of 20 is used.
.It Ar mm
The month of the year, from 01 to 12.
.It Ar dd
The day of the month, from 01 to 31.
.It Ar HH
The hour of the day, from 00 to 23.
.It Ar MM
The minute of the hour, from 00 to 59.
.It Ar SS
The second of the minute, from 00 to 60.
.El
.Pp
Everything but the minutes is optional.
.Pp
Time changes for Daylight Saving and Standard Time and leap seconds
and years are handled automatically.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of
.Nm :
.Bl -tag -width iTZ
.It Ev TZ
The timezone to use when displaying dates.
See
.Xr environ 7
for more information.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules -compact
.It Pa /etc/localtime
Symlink pointing to system's default timezone information file in
.Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo
directory.
.It Pa /usr/lib/locale/<L>/LC_TIME
Description of time locale <L>.
.It Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo
Time zone information directory.
.It Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules
Used with POSIX-style TZ's.
.It Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT
For UTC leap seconds.
.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
A record of date resets and time changes.
.It Pa /var/log/messages
A record of the user setting the time.
.El
.Pp
If
.Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT
is absent, UTC leap seconds are loaded from
.Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules .
.Sh EXAMPLES
The command:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
date '+DATE: %m/%d/%y%nTIME: %H:%M:%S'
.Ed
.Pp
will display:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
DATE: 11/21/87
TIME: 13:36:16
.Ed
.Pp
The command:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
date 8506131627
.Ed
.Pp
sets the date to
.Dq Li "June 13, 1985, 4:27 PM" .
.Pp
The command:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
date 1432
.Ed
.Pp
sets the time to
.Li "2:32 PM" ,
without modifying the date.
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 on success, 1 if unable to set the date, and 2
if able to set the local date, but unable to set it globally.
.Pp
Occasionally, when
.Xr timed 8
synchronizes the time on many hosts, the setting of a new time value may
require more than a few seconds.
On these occasions,
.Nm
prints:
.Ql Network time being set .
The message
.Ql Communication error with
.Xr timed 8
occurs when the communication
between
.Nm
and
.Xr timed 8
fails.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr adjtime 2 ,
.Xr gettimeofday 2 ,
.Xr settimeofday 2 ,
.Xr parsedate 3 ,
.Xr strftime 3 ,
.Xr utmp 5 ,
.Xr environ 7 ,
.Xr timed 8
.Rs
.%T "TSP: The Time Synchronization Protocol for UNIX 4.3BSD"
.%A R. Gusella
.%A S. Zatti
.Re
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm
utility is expected to be compatible with
.St -p1003.2 .
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm
utility appeared in
.At v1 .