From 1111b4e102d896f65cb3f4bc42f041ea1c49efb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Zed A. Shaw" <zed.shaw@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:36:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Very basic date, but doesn't use the unix format.

---
 date/.gitignore |  2 ++
 date/Makefile   |  4 ++++
 date/go.mod     |  3 +++
 date/main.go    | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 date/.gitignore
 create mode 100644 date/Makefile
 create mode 100644 date/go.mod
 create mode 100644 date/main.go

diff --git a/date/.gitignore b/date/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..594c1b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/date/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+date
+date.exe
diff --git a/date/Makefile b/date/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bea7546
--- /dev/null
+++ b/date/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+
+
+build:
+	go build .
diff --git a/date/go.mod b/date/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fb82eb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/date/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+module lcthw.dev/go/go-coreutils/date
+
+go 1.24.2
diff --git a/date/main.go b/date/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..befbe17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/date/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+  "fmt"
+  "time"
+  "flag"
+)
+
+func main() {
+  var result string
+  var universal bool
+
+  it_is := time.Now()
+
+  flag.BoolVar(&universal, "u", false, "UTC time.")
+  flag.Parse()
+
+  if universal {
+    it_is = it_is.UTC()
+  }
+
+  if flag.NArg() == 1 {
+    result = it_is.Format(flag.Args()[0])
+  } else {
+    result = it_is.String()
+  }
+
+  fmt.Println(result)
+}