Name

date - display or set date and time

Examples

Print Formatted Date/Time

• Date/Time with time zone offset (format: +hhmm):

  date +%Y-%m-%d'T'%H:%M:%s%z
  2022-07-22T10:51:14+0200
  

  or shorter

  date +%F'T'%T%z
  2022-07-22T10:51:14+0200
  

• Date/Time with time zone offset (format +hh:mm):

  • On macOS

    TZ=Europe/Berlin date -Iseconds -r $(date +%s)
    2022-07-22T10:33:40+02:00
    

  • On Linux

    date +%F'T'%T%:z
    2022-07-22T10:33:40+02:00