You can use the stat command to view dates and times associated with Linux files, and the date command can do some handy conversions if you’d like to display the current time in the epoch format.

We looked at various ways to write scripts that would only run on the last day of the month in the column “Is this the last day of the month?”. Determining whether an arbitrary day is the last day of ...

In last week’s column, I encouraged anyone who hasn’t already patched their OSes for the imminent daylight savings time changes. This week, we look at a command for displaying timezone data and ...