How to Get Current Time in Hours and Minutes in Linux Bash

To get the current time in hours and minutes in Linux bash, you can use the date command and specify the %H and %M format options to print the hour and minute respectively.

For example:

date +"%H:%M"

result:

15:34

This will output the current hour and minute in the format HH:MM.

To print the time in a different timezone, you can use the TZ environment variable. For example:

TZ='Europe/Paris' date +"%H:%M"

result:

14:34

This will print the current time in Paris, Europe.

More ways to get time in Bash

date +"%m %d %Y %H:%M:%S"

Get the current time with date and seconds:

01 04 2023 15:35:57

Use awk to get current time in Linux

date|awk '{print $4}'

Get the current time with seconds:

15:36:34

Get current time in Bash - printf

To get current time in bash with printf we can use:

printf "%(%H:%M)T\n"

This prints locale time - hour and minute:

15:38