How to beautify date command's output (show date in number format)¶

The default date format¶

After running date command on terminal, the output looks like:

Sat Apr 15 18:21:25 CST 2023

Show date in number format¶

Use the following command to make the date more readable:

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

The output now looks like:

2023-04-15 18:21