DATE(1plan9)

✨ DATE(1plan9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Plan 9 manual, section 1 💅 this is the page for date and it's literally the whole vibe of "what time is it" but make it Unix. no cap. 🕰️

🌸 NAME 🌸

date — date and time, babe. that's it. that's the whole job. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

date [ option ] [ seconds ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, date prints the date. and it prints it in this format, exactly:

Tue Aug 16 17:03:52 CDT 1977

iconic format tbh. no notes. ✨

the options are:

• -u — report Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) instead of your local time. traveling era 🌍
• -n — report the date as the number of seconds since the epoch, which is 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970. that's the big bang of Unix time fr fr 💥

the conversion from Greenwich Mean Time to local time depends on the $timezone environment variable — go read ctime(3) if you want the tea on that one 👀

and if the optional argument seconds is there? it gets used as the time to convert instead of the real time. so you can time travel (kind of) 🧚

not me using date just to feel something 😭

🎀 SOURCE 🎀

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okay that's the page 🫶 this was the <rainbow>DATE(1plan9)</rainbow> manual page — section 1, Plan 9, and the source lives at `/src/cmd/date.c`. slay, go check the time. ⭐💜