Hi friends,
Normally my linux machine giving this below date and time formate while using date command.

[root@wadisvr ~]# date
Wed May 3 04:35:19 IST 2017

but i want to get below default format while only using date command.
[root@wadisvr ~]# date
Wed 3 May 2017 04:35:19 IST

please guide me for the abouve problem.

Regards,
Nandhu_mnk

If you type "man date" it will show details of the usage for date command including the FORMAT.

The "default" is what you see but you can get what you want by using a FORMAT specification:

date +"%a %d %b %Y %H:%M %Z"

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thanks friend,

I tried that format option also.But my linux application team asking to change default date and time format.
while simply i type that date command it should give that (Wed 3 May 2017 04:35:19 IST )format date and time.
i should never use anything in in that command's option.

regards,
Nandhu_mnk

I'm not sure this is possible without modifying the code.
Have you tried to make an alias for date?

You could add it to your users bashrc or bash_profile file so that when they logs in it is set automatically.

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I think date +'%a %-d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z' would more accurately match the OP's requirements.

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Hi Nandhu_mnk and welcome to LQ.

Please realize that commands work in native forms a certain way. As cited by lazydog, hydrurga, and MensaWater; in order to attain an exacting format for how you wish to see the date, you will have to use command modifiers to accomplish this. The suggestion to use an alias is very applicable here. There is also a notation about modifying the actual code for the date command. Which would mean that you could download the open source for the date command, edit it to reformat how it formats the output, and then compile and install the custom replacement command to have it work in a different native reporting format.

Other than those varieties of options, I do not see any way that this can work exactly as you're asking, but do please note that the output form you are seeking, is clearly available.

in your ~/.bashrc

save your work and logout and back in.

All that does is set the default time zone which presumably the OP has already done because he is already seeing IST in his output. The question was about order in output NOT which time zone to used by default.

Yep - I missed the seconds. D'oh!

Of course I did tell the OP where to find the FORMAT options so he might have figured it out.

Lazydog's suggestion of setting up an alias would do it (for logged in users anyway - they might have to add aliases to scripts if there is something they are running). Of course his suggestion needs the :%S as well.

and the hyphen in %-d so that there is no zero padding in the day of the month.

Yep. Stepped right in it.
presumably? DFQ is that?
So what's not "normal" now?
Not much to go on.

In essence he is asking how to put the time zone (IST) at end of line for "date" command output instead of where it appears by default.

Given that he posted this:
...I'd say (given that he says he's the Linux administrator), tell the 'application team' to write an application to do it the way they want to.

Nandhu_mnk, what is it that your 'application team' is trying to accomplish with this? What's your real goal? Because if your developers can't figure out how to format a date in any way they see fit...it's time to hire new developers.

Were you perhaps thinking of a change in LOCALE when you wrote TZ?

Maybe edit t_fmt in /usr/share/i18n/locale/$LC_TIME per this
(from 3rd result from googling thread title; add intitle:globally to make it 1st)