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date in ISO format

Created by dave. Last edited by dave, 10 years and 125 days ago. Viewed 2,664 times. #3
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(2013-04-03)

Echo the date in ISO format:

# date '+%Y-%m-%d'
2013-04-03

(This is one of those stupid things I should remember but never do.)

Bash alias:

alias today='export TODAY=`date +%Y-%m-%d` ; echo $TODAY'

Now you can do stupid tricks like

$ mkdir ~/tmp/`today`
$ cd ~/tmp/$TODAY

Update:

or you can just do

# date -I
which is short enough to use inline:
# mkdir ~/tmp/`date -I`
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