Basic Command Line Date/Timestamp 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
Output:
2017-09-08T09:51:04
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