Commands to Check Time/Date Information in Unix, Linux

Posted by ITsiti — August 19, 2020 in LINUX — Leave a reply

You can use the following commands to figure out the time or date information from your Linux or Unix operating system.

date Command

## COMMAND ##
date

## OUTPUT ##
Wed Aug 19 14:50:02 +08 2020

timedatectl Command

## COMMAND ##
timedatectl

## OUTPUT ##
      Local time: Wed 2020-08-19 14:52:09 +08
  Universal time: Wed 2020-08-19 06:52:09 UTC
        RTC time: Wed 2020-08-19 06:52:09
       Time zone: Asia/Kuala_Lumpur (+08, +0800)
 Network time on: no
NTP synchronized: yes
 RTC in local TZ: no