This example shows the use of the date command to get the current date and time, the date and time being kept across a reset and finally used to show a delay.

>date
Fri Mar 10 01:38:00 2006
>date
Fri Mar 10 01:38:08 2006
>reset
selected all-wr for console write
selected all-rd for console read
DRAM: 128 Mb (134217728 bytes)
BAST: PMU version 1.02, ID 00:01:3d:00:01:6a
ABLE 2.20 Copyright 2001-2005,2006 Simtec Electronics
hdb: ATAPI CDROM: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-7002B PIO mode 4
hdc: FUJITSU MHF2043AT: ATA PIO mode 4
hdc:Diagnosing disc drive: ok
(hdc) 4GB
(hdb) Drive Empty
DM9000: dm0: r1, 00:01:3d:00:01:6a int phy, link ok, 100Mbit full duplex
NE2000: ne0: ISA/Generic, 00:01:3d:00:01:6b
ne0: PHY 0180:bb10, state 7869, LPA 45e1,0007
ne0: starting PHY reset (260)
TMP101: not detected
sys.autoshadow unset, automatically shadowing
>date
Fri Mar 10 01:38:24 2006
>date; sleep 22; date
Fri Mar 10 01:38:44 2006
Fri Mar 10 01:39:06 2006
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