Getting date to use in a filename

The default output of "date" command isn't suitable to be used in filenames. So when you need to use date in a filename, you need to pass formatting options.

Some formatting options

$ date '+%m%d%y'
111306 

$ date '+%H%M%S'
202928

$ date '+%m%d%y%H%M%S'
111306203011