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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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How do I change the date in Google Cloud Container-Optimized OS?

I try to set date: sudo date -s "28 OCT 2018 15:00:00" but before I need to disable NTP timedatectl set-ntp false Google Cloud Container-Optimized OS doesn't have timedatectl util -bash: timedatectl: command not found But which util is return my…
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How to reduce "Connecting Time" reported by GTMetrix?

I've a cloud instance with Linode running CentOS 7.2, PHP 7.1, Nginx & Wordpress (latest version). 1 CPU + 2GB RAM. While checking GTMetrix stats, Connect time is showing as 127ms. I'm trying to find out if I can reduce this time further. What are…
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Process start time and running time do not match

We have a situation where times present by START TIME and TIME presented by "ps" are not matching. When I say matching I mean - TIME shows that a service is running longer than it actually is. Example: someuser 29953 7.9 30.2 4928524 1171844 ? …
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System time is off by up to hundreds of milliseconds despite NTP sync before boot

I'm running a couple of servers which need a pretty tight time sync (<50ms) as they are running a Paxos algorithm. The servers are running NTP and are successfully sync at one point. According to hwclock the 11-minute mechanism is enabled, so the…
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Chef-Server 12 Getting me errors when the node is not time synced

I'm getting this error when the clock on my node is different than 15 minutes from my chef server. Authentication Error: Failed to authenticate to the chef server (http 401). enter code here`The request failed because your clock has drifted by…
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How to read VMware interrupt backlog?

The VMware document titled "Timekeeping in VMware Virtual Machines" have the following referente to the issues with the time drift: If the virtual machine is running too slowly, perhaps as a result of competition for CPU time from other virtual …
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Windows Domain - Time period until User needs to re-authenticate to the Domain?

I run a Windows Domain (Server 2016) and was wondering how long is the default time that a user can still log in to his computer without having a connection to the domain controller? If the user is on holiday for example. How long is he still able…
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Windows 10 eventually changes time to UTC

I have 9 Windows 10 clients for whom I can not set the time. I proceed to date and time, change the time to the current time and timezone and then within an hour the time reverts to what appears to be UTC even though the timezone stays the same. I…
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Ubuntu Systemclock HWClock jumps 20 seconds and back

short explained but no idea hot to solve issue: My Hardware clock (Ubuntu 16.04) is jumping once a minute 20 seconds or so in the future and then back. I have issues with some timestmap comparisation in my database because of that, the issue happens…
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ntpdate shows 4second time drift / day

I started ntpdate running every night as a cronjob (on two servers). And every morning I have an email telling me the outcome. On one server it's correcting by about 0.8 seconds every day, which seems like quite a lot to me. But on the other server,…
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MySQL Communications link failure periodically every 61 minutes

Interesting, strange problem. Have a production system running an application distributed across multiple servers, which all read and write to a, separate, MySQL Server. MySQL Server version 5.6.31 CentOS 7 After running for a few hours, the…
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PST timezone represented as UTC (Ubuntu 14.04)

Received an error earlier this afternoon that the time was wrong. Investigated it and found out that the time on the server (represented as PST) was few minutes ahead of local time. I ran the following command to update the time: sudo service ntp…
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'date' on SLES 12 SP2 instantly reset

I'm attempting to test my system monitoring by temporarily disabling NTP and using "date -s '5 minutes ago'" to change time enough to trigger my alerts. This test works fine on SLES 11 and SLES 12 SP1. On SLES 12 SP2 the date command reverts within…
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How to keep file timestamp?

When I copy a file from a PC to an other, the copy doesn't have the same timestamp as the source. I have the same probleme using either copy/paste or xcopy. The source PC runs Win2003 and the destination one WinXP, they have the same setup (time…
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which table should I query for date & time in zabbix?

i need to query date and time in zabbix server. which table exactly stores these 2 parameters? Actually there is a table named history and there are two fields in that table named "clock" and "ns", but their formats is too odd and i cannot extract…
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