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      1 .TH DATE 1
      2 .SH NAME
      3 date \- date and time
      4 .SH SYNOPSIS
      5 .B date
      6 [
      7 .I option
      8 ] [
      9 .I seconds
     10 ]
     11 .\" .br
     12 .\" .B clock
     13 .SH DESCRIPTION
     14 Print the date, in the format
     15 .PP
     16 .B
     17 	Tue Aug 16 17:03:52 CDT 1977
     18 .PP
     19 The options are
     20 .TP
     21 .B -u
     22 Report Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) rather than local time.
     23 .TP
     24 .B -n
     25 Report the date as the number of seconds since the
     26 epoch, 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970.
     27 .TP
     28 .B -i
     29 Report the date as ISO-8601 without time and timezone suffix.
     30 .TP
     31 .B -t
     32 Report the date as ISO-8601 with time and timezone suffix.
     33 .PP
     34 The conversion from Greenwich Mean Time to local time depends on the
     35 .B $timezone
     36 environment variable; see
     37 .IR ctime (3).
     38 .PP
     39 If the optional argument
     40 .I seconds
     41 is present, it is used as the time to convert rather than
     42 the real time.
     43 .\" .SH FILES
     44 .\" .TF /adm/timezone/local
     45 .\" .TP
     46 .\" .B /env/timezone
     47 .\" Current timezone name and adjustments.
     48 .\" .TP
     49 .\" .B /adm/timezone
     50 .\" A directory containing timezone tables.
     51 .\" .TP
     52 .\" .B /adm/timezone/local
     53 .\" Default timezone file, copied by
     54 .\" .IR init (8)
     55 .\" into
     56 .\" .BR /env/timezone .
     57 .\" .PD
     58 .SH SOURCE
     59 .B \*9/src/date/date.c