title: Get current time in hours and minutes
body: <p>I'm trying to collect information from a system and I need to get the current time in hours and minutes.</p>
  
  <p>Currently I have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>date | awk '{print $4}'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which outputs something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>16:18:54
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I chop off the seconds?</p>