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date
Example
%OW The week number of the year (0–53) (with Monday as the first day of the
week) using the current locale’s alternate numeric symbols.
%Ow The weekday as a number using the current locale’s alternate numeric
symbols (Sunday=0).
%Oy The year (offset from %C) using the current locale’s alternate numeric
symbols.
The command:
date ’+%a %b %e %T %Z %Y’
produces the date in the default format—as shown at the start of this command
description.
Environment Variable
date uses the following environment variables:
Localization
Exit Values
Messages
TZ Gives the time zone for date to use when displaying the time. This is
ignored if you specify either the –c or the –u option.
For information on setting the local time zone with the TZ environment
variable, see Appendix I.
date uses the following localization environment variables:
v LANG
v LC_ALL
v LC_CTYPE
v LC_MESSAGES
v LC_TIME
v NLSPATH
See Appendix F for more information.
0 Successful completion
>0 Failure due to any of the following:
v An incorrect command-line option
v Too many arguments on the command line
v A bad date conversion
v A formatted date that was too long
v You do not have permission to set the date
Possible error messages include:
Bad format character x
A character following “%” in the format string was not in the list of field
descriptors.
No permission to set date
The system has denied you the right to set the date.
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