Linux terminal is used for many advanced functions but let’s learn a few commands for fun that can display date, time and calendar.
Open the terminal in your favourite Linux distro and try the following command.
date: displays the date, day, time along with Time zone
cal: displays calendar of current month
cal 2020 : displays 2020 year calendar
cal Aug 2020: displays August month calendar of the year 2020
Example
[sulthan@localhost ~]$ date Wednesday 05 August 2020 12:31:26 AM IST [sulthan@localhost ~]$ date "+%A" Wednesday [sulthan@localhost ~]$ date "+%D" 08/05/20 [sulthan@localhost ~]$ date "+%T" 00:31:46 [sulthan@localhost ~]$ cal August 2020 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
