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Convert SELinux log date format from Epoch to Normal

When SELinux logs an event to the audit log on my CentOS 6 system, it's logging it in epoch time which makes for a real hassle when trying to troubleshoot. Is there any way to make it log these events using human readable date formats? I've looked…
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Date and time zone on Linux

I ran the date command and it gave the following output: root@localhost:~$ date Thu Dec 30 14:19:47 UTC 2010 Then, I modified the date using date -s which gave the following output: root@localhost:~$ date -s "12/30/2010 JST 14:19:47" Thu Dec 30…
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date keeps resetting

I have a virtual machine(VirtualBox) running Ubuntu server. When i issue date -s 2011-01-01 it changes the date, but after a few seconds, the date resets itself to the real time. I do not have any ntp service running (althrough i'm not sure how to…
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Why is my "Last log on" date wrong?

I'm sitting here across the office from Bob, who is logged into the domain right now, working away. I pull up AD Admin Center and take a look at Bob's account and it tells me his last log on date is 10/25/2010 at noon. It's currently 11/2/2010 at…
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jq sort by date (iso 8601)

I try to sort json by date (field CreationTimeUTC) in iso 8601 format with jq 1.5. I found this post, but that return : 'Cannot index boolean with string "CreationTimeUTC"' jq '.Entities.BackupJobSessions.BackupJobSessions[] |…
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Set date format in nginx autoindex HTML listing

The default date format in nginx autoindex HTML directory listings is 19-Jun-2019. Can I change it to ISO YYYY-MM-DD format instead?
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Linux date translation to different time zone

The Linux server is hosted in EST timezone. But I want to translate the output of date command to IST(Indian Standard time +5:30 hrs) format and use it in a shell script. Is there any option available for date command to do this or have manually…
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Why is $ date still displaying EST when /etc/localtime is symlinked to /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT?

I'm having a problem setting the date on my server... $ ls -la /etc | grep localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 6 12:07 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT For some reason, although the time 17:31:06 is GMT, the timezone suffix is…
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filtering event logs with specific TIME range of ANY day

How can I query windows server events between two times of any day? I have tried with PowerShell... Get-EventLog -Logname xxxx -After 04:00:00 -Before 04:00:30 ...but just returns today's events
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Journalctl seems to be ignoring since and until

I'm trying to get the logs of a problem that's been happening for over a week by this point. I'm trying to use journalctl to print the logs but it doesn't seem to give me anything more or less than the past 5 days. I've tried using since/until but…
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Centos 6 Timezone Wrong

I am trying to set my Centos 6 VPS to GMT timezone. I tried a sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime Which works fine. However when I run date it returns: Tue Oct 4 05:09:32 GMT 2016 Which indicates there is something that is much more…
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Set up a permanent system date

I need to set up a permanent system date in a Linux test server for time-sensitive software which needs this time loop (Groundhog day's style) or bending time (Hiro's ones), you name it. I tried it with a cron at 00:00 every day that invokes date to…
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How to configure hwclock to UTC on Redhat Linux?

I have linux redhat machine # more /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11 (Tikanga) I want to change the hwclock to UTC time So I perform little test as # date -u Tue Jul 26 10:01:53 UTC 2016 more…
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Creating a RFC 1123 compliant date for HTTP header creation on the CLI

I'm trying to create a HTTP 1/1 compliant date header using standard unix date(1) in order to post this to a RESTful server using curl or similar. Any ideas what format to pass to date(1) to get this to be RFC 1123 compliant? Many thanks
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How to start tomcat with faketime within a docker container?

I use docker to deploy a Java web application in tomcat. For testing purposes, I want to force the system date to a specific value. With Docker it is not possible to change the container date without affecting the host date. So I would like to use…
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