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