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Basic Command Line Date/Timestanp Examples

Epoch Seconds

date +%s

Timezone

date +%z

Timezone without newline

printf "%s" $(date +%z)

Timestamp Variable

#!/bin/bash

TIMESTAMP=$(date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S)

echo $TIMESTAMP

Results

2017-09-08T09:51:04