1. date command

1. $ date Wed Mar 18 10:27:15 IST 2015

[[displays the current date and time in the timezone of machine is.]]

2. Displaying Julian Date means total no. Of days from start of year.

$ date +%j077

or date -d “2011/07/13” +%j

3. displaying in particular format (%Y displays in 4 digit & %y displays in two digit) use combination of Upper case & lower case. date +%d\/%m\/%Y

4. find date after and before date. date -d "-7 days" date -d "+7 days"5. format of changing date time in linux date mmddhhmi [[Not year as current year by default ]].

6. Displaying day name

date +%a or date +%A