How do I remove leading zeros from dates?

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Issue

  • I need to remove leading zeros from dates in yyyy-mm-dd format:
$ date +'%Y-%m-%d'
2015-07-08

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • coreutils
  • date command

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