Check Time in Linux
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Use the GNU utility, date. Check 'date --help' or 'man date' for all of the options, which are too numerous to list here. With no parameters, this utility will display the day of the week, the month, date, time in hh:mm:ss, the timezone and the year. There are options to customize the default output in dozens of different ways.
Steps
- Execute the command date with no parameter's date
- For example
- > date
- Fri Oct 9 08:31:07 MST 2009
Tips
- Follow the instructions in https://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Timezone-in-Linux to make sure your system is configured to the correct timezone.
- One way to synchronize your computer's clock to the international standard: 'ntpdate 2.north-america.pool.ntp.org' if you are in North America.
- http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/NTPPoolServers lists time servers that might be closer (it doesn't matter which one you use, the ntp servers will include the round-trip network latency in the response). You can download the Network Time Protocol software from that site if it is not included in your distribution.
- For a more comprehensive explanation of the 'date' command, which is included in the GNU Coreutils, visit http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#date-invocation
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