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1.1       root        1: .TH DATE 1
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: date \- print the date
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B date
                      6: [
                      7: .I option
                      8: ] [
                      9: .I seconds
                     10: ]
                     11: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     12: Print the date, in the format
                     13: .PP
                     14: .B
                     15:        Tue Aug 16 17:03:52 CDT 1977
                     16: .PP
                     17: The options are
                     18: .TP
                     19: .B -u
                     20: Report Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) rather than local time.
                     21: .TP
                     22: .B -n
                     23: Report the date as the number of seconds since the
                     24: epoch, 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970.
                     25: .PP
                     26: The conversion from Greenwich Mean Time to local time depends on the
                     27: .B $timezone
                     28: environment variable; see
                     29: .IR ctime (2).
                     30: .PP
                     31: If the optional argument
                     32: .I seconds
                     33: is present, it is used as the time to convert rather than
                     34: the real time.
                     35: .SH FILES
                     36: .TF /adm/timezone/local
                     37: .TP
                     38: .B /env/timezone
                     39: Current timezone name and adjustments.
                     40: .TP
                     41: .B /adm/timezone
                     42: A directory containing timezone tables.
                     43: .TP
                     44: .B /adm/timezone/local
                     45: Default timezone file, copied by
                     46: .IR init (8)
                     47: into
                     48: .BR /env/timezone .
                     49: .SH SOURCE
                     50: .B /sys/src/cmd/date.c

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