Questions tagged [date]
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Users changing date/time from BIOS
We have around 350 Windows XP PC and a Windows 2008 R2 Server. The problem is that some users are changing the date/time from BIOS and the next user who would try to log-in on that PC would get the date/time server difference error.
We tried to…
Ignacio
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Display nth instance of grepped pattern
So here's my problem. I have an issue with a .csv file (Current.csv) in that there are commas randomly place throughout the data, so awk-ing the file doesn't give me constant column numbers for a particular type of information I'm looking for. …
user121351
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Bash scripting: detect first day of month
I wrote three bash files:
incremental_backup
full_backup
execution
Now I want another bash script do the following :
if (date is the start of month 1/-/----)
then
invoke `full_back_up`
else
invoke `incremental_backup`
How can I…
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Transfer files older than N days with WinSCP
How to transfer files with WinSCP that are older than N days? It seems there is no such option inside. But could it be done with scripting/cmd mix?
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Changing linux date with current time
I am running sudo date +%m/%d/%Y -s 7/14/2010 command to change date. It changes fine except I want it to pick up the current time as well, and not start the time from 00:00:00 on 7/14/2010.
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What is changing my Windows Server's date?
At my organisation we have a number of virtual machines on ESXi hosts in a number of sites.
For the past few months, around once or twice a week one virtual machine, seemingly at random, will update the date to something weeks in the future for a…
Mayzed
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Trying to set date time within ubuntu based docker container
Within my docker container I run:
root@77defb7a21e5:/# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.9 (jessie)
Release: 8.9
Codename: jessie
root@77defb7a21e5:/# date
Tue Aug 7 16:54:14…
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Windows: how to set a date and time before logon?
Complete newbie to powershell and scripting, here.
I have figured out how to set date and time through powershell using the set-date cmdlet.
However, I can't figure out how to execute the script with admin rights before Windows logon or anyway as…
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Bash scripting: Get the week of month by referencing the Monday of that week
I'd like to be able to retrieve the number of the Monday of the current week using a bash script in Ubuntu Linux.
Example and info: This past Monday (Oct 30th) was the fifth Monday in October, and Wednesday was the first day and obviously first…
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Date field is being presented as integer
I have an Elastic Stack server (on Hyper-v) that is ingesting data via a logstash exec command and performing analytics on it. Everything is working great except a date field that is being displayed as a number.
How do I get logstash, Elasticsearch…
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Change date on a computer that is attached to a domain
Is it possible to change the date of a computer that is attached to a domain and have it stick? I've researched this for a few days and haven't found anything confirming or denying that this is possible. The computer we have is Windows 10 and the…
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Timestamp comparison on AIX without date -d
I have a bash script on AIX 7 that runs a database query and the output I get is a timestamp in the following format: 201607130319.
Now I would like to compare the timestamp with current time (date +%Y%m%d%H%M - 201607201802) and check the…
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Portwell motherboard: Boot-time fsck finds "unexpected inconsistency" due to system time
Although this question involves an embedded motherboard, serverfault seemed to me the best stackexchange forum to post to. My colleagues and I have been investigating this weird Linux boot problem for a few months now, and we're kinda stuck. Any…
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System clock always resyncs after setting it
I'm setting the system clock using the following command:
date -s "31 DEC 2015 12:00:00"
Immediately after executing I run just date and see that the date and time is December 31 2015. Then, after waiting about three seconds, I run date again and…
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Solaris + date + what is the same equivalent for Solaris
on Linux the syntax for date with seconds is:
date +%s
1438587288
from MAN PAGE - %s seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
what is the same equivalent for Solaris?
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