Add Print The Current Date In Human-Readable Format as a Unix TIL

README.md

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 - [Print Out Files In Reverse](unix/print-out-files-in-reverse.md)
+- [Print The Current Date In Human-Readable Format](unix/print-the-current-date-in-human-readable-format.md)
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unix/print-the-current-date-in-human-readable-format.md

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+# Print The Current Date In Human-Readable Format
+
+The `date` utility by default does a good job of displaying the current date in
+a human-readable format.
+
+```bash
+❯ date
+Fri Jun  2 11:30:03 CDT 2023
+```
+
+It has some additional info like the time and timezone.
+
+If I just want to see the date with the day of the week, I can call `date` with
+a format string that uses special identifiers for each part of the date. This
+gives me control over exactly how it is displayed. For example, the following
+format string works for my purposes.
+
+```bash
+❯ date '+%A %B %d, %Y'
+Friday June 02, 2023
+```
+
+The `+` indicates that it is a user-specified format string and the rest of the
+special identifiers are defined by `strftime`.
+
+See `man date` and `man strftime` for more details.