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the "date" tag is used to classify questions about date/calendar/time manipulation, visualisation, conversion... on Unix-like systems.

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Context: I want to process a file created by another program, but the name of its output file is not completely under my control, so to find its output I use find to find all files in the output ...
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In KDE System Settings locale is UK apart from keyboard layout, which is Italian. For some reason, this is the output of the locale command: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" ...
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During the Christmas season the icons for vlc and mpv change. A red Christmas cap is placed on the left/right side of each icon. How do these programs know it's Christmas? Is there some function in ...
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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 ( ...
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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[...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.%...
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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....
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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. ...
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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, ...
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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?
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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 ...
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Is there an extension which would allow me to add an additional date (Julian) to the Gnome panel?
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