Exploring formats and options of “date” command

In Linux, “date” is a program/command which is used to print or set the system date and time

date [OPTION]…[+FORMAT]

To Diplay time in UTC,

Different Formats :

%a — locale’s abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)
%A — locale’s full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
%b — locale’s abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)
%B — locale’s full month name (e.g., January)
%c — locale’s date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005)
%C — century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 20)
%d — day of month (e.g., 01)
%D — date; same as %m/%d/%y
%e — day of month, space padded; same as %_d
%F — full date; same as %Y-%m-%d
%g — last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)
%G — year of ISO week number %h same as %b
%H — hour (00..23)
%I — hour (01..12)
%j — day of year (001..366)
%k — hour, space padded ( 0..23); same as %_H
%l — hour, space padded ( 1..12); same as %_I
%m — month (01..12)
%n — a newline
%N — nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
%p — locale’s equivalent of either AM or PM
%P — like %p, but lower case
%q — quarter of year (1..4)
%r — locale’s 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)
%R — 24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M
%s — seconds since 1970–01–01 00:00:00 UTC
%S — second (00..60)
%t — a tab
%T — time; same as %H:%M:%S
%u — day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday
%U — week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week
%V — ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week
%w — day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday
%W — week number of year, with Monday as first day of week
%x — locale’s date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)
%X — locale’s time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)
%y — last two digits of year (00..99)
%Y — year
%z — +hhmm numeric time zone (e.g., -0400)
%:z — +hh:mm numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00)
%::z — +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00)
%:::z — numeric time zone with : to necessary precision
%Z — alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)

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