---
name: "date"
section: "1plan9"
platform: "linux"
package: "9base"
version: "1:6-14"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/date/1plan9"
---

# date(1plan9)

date and time

## NAME

date - date and time

## SYNOPSIS

**date** \[ *option* \] \[ *seconds* \]

## DESCRIPTION

Print the date, in the format

	**Tue Aug 16 17:03:52 CDT 1977**

The options are

- **-u**

  Report Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) rather than local time.

- **-n**

  Report the date as the number of seconds since the epoch, 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970.

The conversion from Greenwich Mean Time to local time depends on the **$timezone** environment variable; see [*ctime*(3)](/ctime/3.md).

If the optional argument *seconds* is present, it is used as the time to convert rather than the real time.

## SOURCE

**/src/cmd/date.c**