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==name date

==short-description

Displays or sets the current time and date.

==long-description

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

==option bool u universal

Display or set universal time (UTC) rather than local time.

==option string s set

Sets the time and date. Format is that accepted by TTime::Parse(). For UK English localisations, C<DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS> is one such acceptable format.

==option int o utc-offset

Sets the UTC offset in seconds. Must be used in conjunction with the C<--set> option.

==option bool S secure

Displays or sets the secure variant of the kernel's reckoning of time.

==option bool r raw

Displays the time and date as the number of microseconds since 0AD nominal Gregorian (Symbian OS's native time format).

==option bool j just-display

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 C<--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.

==option int64 R raw-set

Sets the time and date from a number corresponding to the number of microseconds since 0AD nominal Gregorian (Symbian OS's native time format).

==option bool t timestamp

Display the date in timestamp format C<YYYYMMDD-HHMM.SS> suitable for use in a file name.

==option bool Y y2k

Only applicable with C<--raw> and/or C<--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.

==copyright

Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Accenture. All rights reserved.

==smoke-test

date $Quiet

date --raw $Quiet

date --timestamp $Quiet