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Time is a dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.

Time is a dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.

It has been said that time is used by the universe to ensure that everything doesn't happen all at once.

It has also been said that: "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." Not everyone agrees on the nature of time, and time is not fully understood even today.

Because human time perception can be wildly inaccurate, and many system services rely on the close synchronization of clocks, we have specialized clocks do the measurement of time for us. On the Internet, data from these clocks is made available via .

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System time on Windows Server 2008 server increasing continuously

The system time of my Windows Server 2008 server is increasing continuously. In order to adjust the time, I have to shutdown and reset the time. I have tried changing the CMOS battery, but the problem is still persisting. Since we cannot access the…
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Why did my Windows Server 2012 R2 timezone change overnight?

When I logged into my workstation this morning, the timezone had been changed from Eastern to Pacific. In the event viewer I see the following three events, all at 4:12:15 AM. It looks like the timezone was not changed for the 1st and 2nd event but…
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How do I stop the clock running fast on a virtualbox client running ubuntu 8.04?

I'm having a problem with the clock running fast in Ubuntu 8.04 server (2.6.24-24-generic kernel) running in VirtualBox 3.04. It's drifting quickly, something like 5 minutes per hour. I think it was working fine until I upgraded to VirtualBox 3.04…
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How long does it take to update all the clocks in a Windows domain?

I know the answer to this might be a bit nebulous, so I'll happily accept an answer that tells me the basic rules for this. Supposing the clock in the PDC Emulator has got all out of whack and this has sent all the workstation clocks similarly out…
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Set up an NTP server to allow local machines to be syncronised for Linux

I am trying to set up a machine to act as an ntp server to which the other local machines will syncronise their times to. This needs to happen regardless of whether the ntp server machine is connected to the internet, i.e: it is not important that…
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EC2 Instance time and hardware clock

I have set up an EC2 instance, running ArchLinux, for use as a server. Doing what I always do when installing Arch, I try to fix the time by using: # hwclock --systohc --utc This does not work, and I get from the system: hwclock: Cannot access the…
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Linux clock loses 10 minutes every week

One of my linux server's clock loses 10 minutes every now and then, nearly every week. I update the time so it stays correct, and although it doesn't really bother me, i'd like to fix it. I've been searching around a bit. Nothing can be responsible…
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Discovering NTP servers providing time service on network

As a linux (Debian-based) host on a network, how can I discover whether an NTP service exists somewhere locally on the network? Thanks.
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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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Setup of NTP on Hyper-V servers

I am having problems with NTP setup on our Hyper-V host and clients. I am not using Domain Controller (almost all advise is given for DC's which I am not using). On all servers I have used the windows clock to setup the ntp client name (Right click,…
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Timing of programs in Windows

Is there a Windows equivalent of the time Unix command? time measures the time spent by a process in both user and kernel lands. $ time for i in `seq 100`; do echo -n HI; done HIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHI<... snip ...> real…
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Setting Shoretel phone time correctly with dhcpd

Our Shoretel 230 phones are not picking up time service correctly and thus, the time on the display is wrong. When I go to the diagnostics of the phone, they are using a wrong time server (old). Here is the top scope of my dhcpd.conf. The…
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Adjusting Windows time drift without internet on Windows Server 2003

I have Windows Server 2003 on a local LAN that has no internet connection, and need somewhat accurate timing. Unfortunately currently Windows loses about 1-2 minutes every week, which is why I have to manually log in every weekend and adjust the…
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Unix Command to timestamp the output of a file, but with the relative-to-when-it-started time?

There are numerous programmes (e.g. ts in moreutils), and various bash one-liners to prepend the output of a command/pipe with the timestamp of when that line was 'printed'. However is there a command that, for each line that it gets, will print the…
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Windows Time Service OS Compatibility

Some of our servers have Domain Time II on them but we are having to make the possible decision to buy over 100+ licenses for Domain Time II or enable the windows time service. The installation of Domain Time II was done a few years before I arrived…
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