How can I get the current date and time in the terminal and set a custom command in the terminal for it

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I have to check the time in a Linux terminal   What is the command for getting date and time in a Linux terminal   Is there a way in which we can set a custom function

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The command is date  To customise the output there are a myriad of options available  see date --help for a list   For example  date    A  W  Y  X  gives Tuesday 34 2013 08 04 22 which is the name of the day of the week  the week number  the year and the time

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You can use date to get time and date of a day     pengyu GLaDOS    date Tue Aug 27 15 01 27 CST 2013   Also hwclock would do    pengyu GLaDOS    hwclock Tue 27 Aug 2013 03 01 29 PM CST  -0 516080 seconds   For customized output  you can either redirect the output of date to something like awk  or write your own program to do that    Remember to put your own executable scripts binary into your PATH  e g   usr bin  to make it invokable anywhere

[linux] How can I get the current date and time in the terminal and set a custom command in the terminal for it?

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