linux date -u,linux date 命令的使用

Usage: date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]

or:  date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]

Display the current time in the given FORMAT, or set the system date.

-d, --date=STRING         display time described by STRING, not `now'

-f, --file=DATEFILE       like --date once for each line of DATEFILE

-r, --reference=FILE      display the last modification time of FILE

-R, --rfc-2822            output date and time in RFC 2822 format.

Example: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:34:56 -0600

--rfc-3339=TIMESPEC   output date and time in RFC 3339 format.

TIMESPEC=`date', `seconds', or `ns' for

date and time to the indicated precision.

Date and time components are separated by

a single space: 2006-08-07 12:34:56-06:00

-s, --set=STRING          set time described by STRING

-u, --utc, --universal    print or set Coordinated Universal Time

--help     display this help and exit

--version  output version information and exit

FORMAT controls the output.  Interpreted sequences are:

%%   a literal %

%a   locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)

%A   locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)

%b   locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)

%B   locale's full month name (e.g., January)

%c   locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar  3 23:05:25 2005)

%C   century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 20)

%d   day of month (e.g, 01)

%D   date; same as %m/%d/%y

%e   day of month, space padded; same as %_d

%F   full date; same as %Y-%m-%d

%g   last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)

%G   year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V

%h   same as %b

%H   hour (00..23)

%I   hour (01..12)

%j   day of year (001..366)

%k   hour ( 0..23)

%l   hour ( 1..12)

%m   month (01..12)

%M   minute (00..59)

%n   a newline

%N   nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)

%p   locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known

%P   like %p, but lower case

%r   locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)

%R   24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M

%s   seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

%S   second (00..60)

%t   a tab

%T   time; same as %H:%M:%S

%u   day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday

%U   week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)

%V   ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)

%w   day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday

%W   week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)

%x   locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)

%X   locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)

%y   last two digits of year (00..99)

%Y   year

%z   +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400)

%:z  +hh:mm numeric timezone (e.g., -04:00)

%::z  +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00)

%:::z  numeric time zone with : to necessary precision (e.g., -04, +05:30)

%Z   alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)