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The date command

print or set the system date and time 4 examples from the lessons of the IVski Linux Playground — try them in the terminal next to them.

Examples

date
date --help
date +%F

Today's date: YYYY-MM-DD

date '+%F %T'

2026-10-25 14:30:00

Lessons that use date

  • Your First Commands
  • Project: Nightly Backup
  • Project: Server Health Check
  • Project: Uptime Monitor