If you want to see a particular version or element of a date, use the characters described in the list of options below. %D – Date as mm/dd/yy %Y – Year (e.g., 2020) %m – Month (01-12) %B – Long month ...

Commands that provide help are essential. Here's a look at some of the help you can get from the Linux system itself. Even after you’ve used Linux for a while, you will still find yourself needing ...

Managing the time, date, and timezone on a Linux system is crucial for maintaining the timely operation of system tasks, accurate logging, and synchronization with other systems. The timedatectl ...

The "time" command in Linux is a process timer and does not display the system time. Though counterintuitive, the Linux "date" command displays the time, as well as the date, on a Linux box. You can ...

In part II of this series of articles on doing date math from the command line we want to try to solve a problem we noted in part I: passing the date command a date specification something like "the ...