Questions tagged [date]

Question 1

What is that "T" in the pattern string of the date-command? While there is decent information about the output format string, I can only find unexplained examples for the pattern string ( ...

Question 2

I have an openwrt router (so no journalctl and only busybox commands), and would like to extract the logs from the last minute. The logs are like this: Tue Jun 3 11:06:43 2025 authpriv.info dropbear[...

Question 3

We are using command find $$dirpath_err -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*XYZJPQ*_"`date +%m_%d_%Y`"*standard_error.csv" but the file is generated as ...

Question 4

This command will output the following: date --iso-8601=ns 2025-04-04T12:10:16,045431370+02:00 According to man date the ns is documented as follows: -I[FMT], --iso-8601[=FMT] output date/time in ...

Question 5

I changed the prompt in my .bashrc to show the current time. This was the original prompt (from a fresh MX Linux install) PS1="$PURPLE\u$nc@$CYAN\H$nc:$GREEN\w$nc\\n$GREEN\$$nc " and I ...

Question 6

This is a bash date conversion/comparison question. How do I compare dates $d1 and $d2 below where: $d1 has format %-m/%-d/%Y %-I:%M %p (US-style %p with AM/PM) and $d2 has format %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%...

Question 7

I did the following yesterday night (before midnight of Sunday in Germany): Today's date $ LC_TIME="en.GB.UTF8" date --iso-8601 2025-01-12 Today's date (day of the week $ LC_TIME="en....

Question 8

When I use WinSCP to access my SFTP server, it shows me the last modified (changed) date including seconds. If I use sftp on Linux and run ls -l, it only shows the hours and minutes, but no seconds. ...

Question 9

I can make some date arithmetic with date command like $ date -u -d '3 days 2024-12-01T00:00:00Z' +%FT%H:%M:%SZ 2024-12-04T00:00:00Z $ The date command can parse quite a lot of date formats, ...

Question 10

I want the just the current time in HH:MM (%R or %H:%M in strftime) in a time zone other the my system's.s Is this possible with just the date command, and if so, how?

Question 11

I would like a cron job running every hour for speedtest cli and to log it to csv file with time and date (https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli). So I can run it this way 0 * * * * speedtest -p no -f ...

Question 12

Is there an extension which would allow me to add an additional date (Julian) to the Gnome panel?

Question 13

I want to create a Bash script that outputs the following: Chile: 03:46am, Friday, 27 September, 2024 Tierra Del Fuego: 03:46am, Friday, 27 September, 2024 Falkland Islands: 03:46am, Friday, 27 ...

Question 14

I have the following code in a Bash script, which takes the current date/time and sets it via SSH on a target computer: ssh <user>@<target> "date --set '$(date)'" This was ...

Question 15

KWrite is included as the default text editor in several popular Linux distros (such as Fedora KDE). Inserting a timestamp is a basic feature of text editors. How can one set a keyboard shortcut to ...

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Questions tagged [date]

What is that "T" in the pattern string of the date-command?

Get all log lines from last minute with busybox

Help needed for command to avoid leading zero in month part

What output does --iso-8601=ns provide with the date command?

time in bash prompt does not change over time

How to compare two dates in formats %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%3NZ and %-m/%-d/%Y %-I:%M %p

Locale: Unable to get correct date (for Sunday of this week)

How to show seconds of last modified date when using sftp command?

ISO 8601 intervals in date arithmetic with date command

Can any Linux date command print the current time in a time zone other than the current?

speedtest cli with cron and date

adding alternate date (e.g., julian) to Gnome panel

How to use associative array in Bash to get the current time in multiple locations?

Invalid date when setting one computer's clock from another

How to set keyboard shortcut to insert a timestamp (time & date) in KWrite?

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