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## Manual Page Viewer

Name: DATE

Section: Language Operators

Synopsis:

`<date [EPOCH-SECONDS]>`

Description:

Returns the local date as a string of 24 characters.

The output looks like `Fri Jun 20 08:40:01 1997`.

Given the optional argument EPOCH-SECONDS, this number is treated as the number of seconds since 12 midnight, December 31st, 1969, and is converted into the current date.

Also see the `time` function.

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