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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 .MR 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