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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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Linux time incorrect

I've a Ruby file which executing creates and XML file and saves it. Every time it does it the time for the file (last modification) is incorrect (1 hour ahead). I also noticed that cron jobs execute 1 hour later than then should. When calling date…
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Setting Linux time zone

Should /etc/localtime (under RHEL 5.3, not that I think it matters) be: a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/whatever a hard link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/whatever a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/whatever I'd prefer 1) because it's explicit and easy to…
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How time is affected by the ntpd and /etc/localtime

Can anyone explain how ntpd and /etc/localtime and system clock interact with each other, in UNIX or more specific in freeBSD? I'm giving the following long description of the concepts in case I misunderstand some of them so that you can point it…
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Checking the current time on an ESX server from the vSphere client

What is the easiest way to check the current time on an ESX server from a machine which has the vSphere infrastructure client installed on it ? In other words, is there any way to get the current time on an ESX server if you dont have the root…
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Getting time to sync with NTP on Centos 5 VM

My Centos 5 VM is drifting time. I have scoured different answers to solve this problem. I've looked at the VMWare's tips and added tinker panic 0 on top of my ntp.conf file. I also changed the kernel parameters to: kernel…
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modification time of file in future, but timezone is set correctly

Files that I am creating at a Unix server are created with a modification time that lies 5 days in future. But when I check with the date command, it seems, that timezone and date are set correctly. : # uname -a SunOS tmxd050a 5.10 Generic_118833-33…
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Unix Timestamp in Apache Combined Log?

So basic question, but I can't seem to find an easy answer. How do I record the date/time in my apache logs to have a unix timestamp (seconds since epoch). I have the default LogFormat as: LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\"…
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Time cron not working

10 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org >/dev/null 2>&1 The idea is to sync time every 10 minutes. However im waiting now for 15 minutes and nano /var/log/cron still returns empty. Is this cron running?, if yes where can i find prove?
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How do I troubleshoot root cause of a hung windows (2003) server?

I have a pair of Windows (2003 Server) servers both running MS SQL Server (2008 EE) that each hang every few months. This has been occurring intermittently :( for the past 15 months pretty much since we started using the servers. The symptoms are…
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Windows Time management: Domain Time II a neccessary product?

I ask as I have become part of a network where they have w32 time disabled on machines, and use Domain Time II. Product info here: http://www.greyware.com/software/domaintime/ Just curious if anyone else has experience. My question is really is it…
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Need to Override Automatic Time Set on a Test Server

Possible Duplicate: Stop Active Directory from updating computer time and date I have a question similar to some others I've seen here. I have a development server running Windows Server 2003 SP2, in a Win2K3 Active Directory domain. I need to…
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Odd behaviour of gettimeofday on RHEL5 server

I'm experiencing very odd behaviour from Time::HiRes on RHEL5. Since Time::HiRes is in the Perl standard installation, and is basically a wrapper around the gettimeofday system call, I'm inclined to point the finger at the OS rather than the…
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Reset kernel time (PLL/FLL)

ntp trys to adjust the kernel's time variables, in order to improve the performance of a free-running time. I am searching a way to reset these variables, but I can't find a programm/command to do so. Thanks everyone for helping me!
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System time is wrong in Proxmox VE host, how can I fix it?

I'm using the latest version of Proxmox VE (which is based on Debian) and I can't fix the wrong time problem: $ pveversion -v pve-manager: 1.7-11 (pve-manager/1.7/5470) running kernel: 2.6.32-4-pve proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.7-30 pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve:…
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Unix timestamp deviation

I have two Ubuntu servers which synchronize their timestamp to europe.pool.ntp.org every night. Just before they sync, I can see a difference of 4 seconds between the two servers. One of the servers seems to deviate from 4 seconds in 24 hours. Is…
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