SYNTAX

    date [options]

OPTIONS

-h (--help) bool: Display help.
-u (--universal) bool: Display or set universal time (UTC) rather than local time.
-s (--set) string: Sets the time and date. Format is that accepted by TTime::Parse(). For UK English localisations, DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS is one such acceptable format.
-o (--utc-offset) int: Sets the UTC offset in seconds. Must be used in conjunction with the --set option.
-S (--secure) bool: Displays or sets the secure variant of the kernel's reckoning of time.
-r (--raw) bool: Displays the time and date as the number of microseconds since 0AD nominal Gregorian (Symbian OS's native time format).
-j (--just-display) bool: Rather than going ahead and setting the specified time and date, do a dry run and just displays it in human readable form. Must be used in conjunction with --set or <--raw-set>. In effect it is an option to check that the set string has been parsed correctly before actually making the change.
-R (--raw-set) int64: Sets the time and date from a number corresponding to the number of microseconds since 0AD nominal Gregorian (Symbian OS's native time format).
-t (--timestamp) bool: Display the date in timestamp format YYYYMMDD-HHMM.SS suitable for use in a file name.
-Y (--y2k) bool: Only applicable with --raw and/or --raw-set. Instead of using 0AD as the epoc, assume 2000AD. Some APIs use 2000 instead of 0AD as the epoc so this option is occasionally useful for converting between the two.

Displays or sets the current time and date.

Example usage:

To get the current date and time:

    c:\>date
    07/04/2010 13:46:58.647500

To check how a human readable date is parsed:

    c:\>date --set --just-display "07/04/2010 13:47:00"
    07/04/2010 13:47:00.000000

To convert a raw TInt64 timestamp to a human-readable string:

    c:\>date --raw-set 1234567890 --display-only
    01/01/0000 00:20:34.567890

To set the current local time:

    c:\>date --set "07/04/2010 13:47:00"
    c:\>

To use a timestamp in a filename:

    date --timestamp | export -s TIMESTAMP
    do-something > C:\logs\myoutput-$TIMESTAMP.txt