Function: eshell/date
eshell/date is a function alias for current-time-string, defined in
timefns.c.
Signature
(eshell/date &optional SPECIFIED-TIME ZONE)
Documentation
Return the current local time, as a human-readable string.
Programs can use this function to decode a time,
since the number of columns in each field is fixed
if the year is in the range 1000-9999.
The format is Sun Sep 16 01:03:52 1973.
However, see also the functions decode-time and format-time-string
which provide a much more powerful and general facility.
If SPECIFIED-TIME is given, it is the time value to format instead of
the current time. See format-time-string for the various forms of a
time value.
The optional ZONE is omitted or nil for Emacs local time, t for
Universal Time, wall for system wall clock time, or a string as in
the TZ environment variable. It can also be a list (as from
current-time-zone) or an integer (as from decode-time) applied
without consideration for daylight saving time.