To display the system time and date on a Linux or FreeBSD system, you can use the date command. For example:
date
This will display the current date and time in the following format:
Sat Dec 18 21:25:32 EST 2022
To display the time and date in a different format, you can use the -d option and specify a format string. For example:
date -d "2022-12-18 21:25:32" +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
This will display the date and time in the following format:
2022-12-18 21:25:32
You can use different format specifiers to display the time and date in a variety of formats. For example, to display the date in the format "Year Month Day", you can use the following command:
date +"%Y %B %d"
This will display the date in the following format:
2022 December 18
For more information on the format specifiers that you can use with the date command, you can refer to the command's man page or online documentation.