DevOps/Linux/show time and date.md

Show time and date

Use the date command to se time and date.

The command can take parameters to select what information to display.

To see only date, use date "" Here,

%H: Used to print hours in 24hr format %M: Shows minutes %S: Prints seconds %d/%m/%y: Shows date, time, and year respectively. And if you want a 12hrs clock, you can use the following:

Ubuntu 24.04: Change timezone

Changing Timezone via CLI (command line interface)

• Find your Timezone: timedatectl
• List timezones: timedatectl list-timezones
• Find timezone you with to set: timedatectl list-timezones | grep Oslo
• Set New Timezone: sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Oslo

Verify timezone settings

$ timedatectl