date now for date

Get the current date.

Signature

> date now {flags}

Input/output types:

inputoutput
nothingdatetime

Examples

Get the current date and display it in a given format string.

> date now | format date "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"

Get the time duration since 2019-04-30.

> (date now) - 2019-05-01

Get the time duration since a more specific time.

> (date now) - 2019-05-01T04:12:05.20+08:00

Get current time in full RFC 3339 format with time zone.

> date now | debug