Displaying the current time in a format | LPIC-1 102-500 Exam original practice question

108.1Standard

Display local time as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.

Which command is appropriate?

Hint 1: Focus on clock layers

Separate display formatting, the system clock, the RTC, timezone rules, and daemon synchronization before comparing the choices.

Hint 2: Key terms

Review the short definitions of system clocks, RTC, timezone display, and NTP tools.

date: A command that displays the system clock using a selected format.
+FORMAT: The date syntax that selects which time fields and ordering to print.
%F: A date format directive that expands to YYYY-MM-DD.
%T: A time format directive that expands to HH:MM:SS.

Detailed explanation

Correctdate '+%F %T'

Correct. %F expands to the date and %T to the time with seconds.

Incorrectdate '+%Z %z'

Incorrect. %Z and %z display timezone information.

Incorrectdate '+%s'

Incorrect. %s displays epoch seconds.

Incorrecthwclock --show

Incorrect. hwclock reads the RTC rather than formatting date output as requested.

An example you can run in a temporary verification environment.

date '+%F %T'

実行時点のYYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

Foundation review

Check whether the command acts on the current shell, a new process, an existing process, or a file.

Use the supplied command and compare the output with the expected result.

Question IDKP-108-719

EnvironmentGNU date / 読取のみ

Last technical review2026-08-13

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