There’s a lot more to the date command than having it report the current date and time. You can change the command’s output format in many ways — report dates in the past and future, convert Unix and ...
If you want to see a particular version or element of a date, use the characters described in the list of options below. %D – Date as mm/dd/yy %Y – Year (e.g., 2020) %m – Month (01-12) %B – Long month ...