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d
date(1) date(1)
%Oy Year (offset from
%C) in alternate representation.
Field Width and Precision
An optional field width and precision specification can immediately follow the initial
% of a formatting
directive in the following order:
[
-0]width The decimal digit string width specifies a minimum field width in which the result of
the conversion is right- or left-justified. The default is right-justified with space pad-
ding on the left. If the string starts with "
-", the result is left-justified with space pad-
ding on the right. If the string starts with "
0", the result is right-justified and padded
with zeros on the left.
.prec The decimal digit string prec specifies the minimum number of digits to appear for the
d, H, I, j
, m, M, o, S, U, w, W, y, and
Y numeric directives. If a directive supplies fewer
digits than specified by the precision, it will be expanded with leading zeros.
prec specifies the maximum number of characters to be used from the
a, A, b, B, c, D
,
E, F, h, n
, N, p, r, t, T, x, X, z, Z
, and % text directives. If a directive supplies more
characters than specified by the precision, excess characters are truncated on the right.
If no field width or precision is specified for a
d, H, I, m, M, S,
U, W,ory directive, the default is .2; for
the
j directive, the default is .3; for
Y, the default is .4; for w, the default is .1.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
LC_CTYPE determines the interpretation of the bytes within the format string as single- and/or multi-
byte characters.
LC_NUMERIC determines the characters used to form numbers for those directives that produce numbers
in the output. The characters used are those defined by alt_digit (see locale (1) and
ALT_DIGIT in
langinfo(5)).
LC_TIME determines the content (for example, the weekday names produced by the %a directive) and
format (for example, the current time representation produced by the
%X directive) of date and time
strings output by the
date command.
LC_MESSAGES determines the language in which messages (other than the date and time strings) are
displayed.
If
LC_CTYPE, LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME,orLC_MESSAGES is not specified or is null, it defaults to the
value of LANG.
If
LANG is not specified or is null, it defaults to C (see lang(5)).
If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, all internationalization variables default
to
C (see environ (5)).
TZ determines the conversion between the system time in UTC and the time in the user’s local time zone.
See environ(5) and tztab(4). TZ also determines the content (that is, the time-zone name produced by the
%z and %Z directives) of date and time strings output by the date command.
If
TZ is not set or is set to the empty string, its default value is EST5EDT.
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
DIAGNOSTICS
The following messages may be displayed.
bad conversion
The date/time specification is syntactically incorrect. Check it against the usage and for the
correct range of each of the digit-pairs.
bad format character - c
The character c is not a valid format directive, field width specifier, or precision specifier.
do you really want to run time backwards?[yes/no]
The date/time you specified is earlier than the current clock value. Type yes (or the equivalent
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