Recipe: Get, set dates and delays

date
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$ date
Thu May 20 23:09:04 IST 2010

Epoch time
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$ date +%s
1278353803

Custom formatted date
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$ date "+%d %B %Y"
20 May 2010


Setting date
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# date -s "21 June 2009 11:01:22"

Note: # prompt means Run as root

Get execution time
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$ time command

Scripts
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time_taken.sh