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                      3: date                         Command                         date
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                      8: Print/set the date and time
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                     10: ddaattee [-ss] [-uu] [[_y_y_m_m_d_d]_h_h_m_m[._s_s]]
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                     12: date prints  the time of day and the  current date, including the
                     13: time zone.   If an argument  is given, the  system's current time
                     14: and date is changed, as follows:
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                     17:          _y_y    Year (00-99)
                     18:          _m_m    Month (01-12)
                     19:          _d_d    Day (01-31)
                     20:          _h_h    Hour (00-23)
                     21:          _m_m    Minute (00-59)
                     22:          _s_s    Seconds (00-59)
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                     25: The seconds fields are optional.  For example, typing
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                     28:     date 860512141233
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                     31: sets the date  to May 12, 1986, and the  time to 2:12:33 P.M.  At
                     32: least hh and mm must be specified--the rest are optional.
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                     34: The date may be changed only by the superuser.
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                     36: If option -s  is specified, date suppresses daylight savings time
                     37: conversion when setting the time.
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                     39: If option -u is specified, dates are set and printed in Greenwich
                     40: Mean Time (GMT) rather than in local time.
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                     42: The library  time conversion routines  used by date  look for the
                     43: environmental variable TIMEZONE,  which specifies local time zone
                     44: and daylight  saving time information in  the format described in
                     45: ctime.
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                     47: ***** See Also *****
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                     49: ATclock, commands, ctime(), time, TIMEZONE
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