[ILUG] [TOTD] date

[P at draigBrady.com]

Common things one wants to do with date:

#what day does xmas fall on, this year
date --date='25 Dec' +%A

#What time is it on West coast of US
#(use tzselect to get TZ to use)
TZ="America/Los_Angeles" date

#convert number of seconds since the epoch to a date
date --date '1970-01-01 UTC 130204800 seconds'

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