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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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VMware ESXi - varying CPU time (CPU reservation)

I'm running FreeBSD 7.2 under VMware ESXi 3.5. Host has 2 physical CPUs and the BSD box is currently the only running VM. Only one virtual CPU is assigned to the VM. When measuring CPU time of a specific program, I get very different results from…
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How system time is calculated in ubuntu 14.04?

I have two vps (ubuntu 14.04, bought from a provider) and looking at their system time (doing a date) i see 6 minute of difference: Wed Feb 3 11:57:48 CET 2016 Wed Feb 3 12:03:52 CET 2016 I did a dpkg-reconfigure tzdata and checked the timezone…
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Disconnect Local Clock from Domain Controller Clock

How can I disconnect my workstation clock from the domain controller? In other words, I do not want them synchronized.
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Windows Server internet time server reset after restart

I encountered an issue with Windows Server 2012 (running as a virtual machine), after an unplanned restart: the original internet time server - time-b.nist.gov - changed to time.windows.com. This set the time of the server with two hours ahead, and…
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How exactly date/time works in MySQL with timezones?

My understanding was: everything is UTC internally dates are displayed in @@session.time_zone timezone for current session if I do INSERT with +02:00 TZ set and insert 2015-05-15 10:54 it is parsed and stored as 2015-05-15 08:54 UTC. when I change…
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How to synchronize the time in Debian6 server? We have 30 min delay in our VMs

I can't have the correct time in our servers. We get always the same delay in the three of them (they are VM on the same server). We use ntp to have our date always synchronized· The main server which is virtualized has OS Linux Proxmox. What I have…
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Email shows time 1 hour ahead of server time

I have a dedicated linux server. On plesk it shows the correct local time on the server. However, for all the emails on the server for some reason show the time + 1 hour in outlook. See screenshot beow on outlook How can I get this fixed so that…
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How to speed up (very remote) overloaded server connection

I'm living in France and I need to load a page from a far far away server (still in the same galaxy). "Far" is Canada to me, meaning over 8 000km of internet cable. The problem is, this server is very overloaded. Millions of people connect to this…
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Will changing the date or time on windows server 2008 break any websites or anything else?

Sorry if this is a newb question, but I was told by someone about a month ago that if I change the date and/or time on one of our servers it could break our websites or something. I can't fully remember who told me or what they actually said... but…
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How to correct the time on a Red Hat EL6 server? Clock is almost 3 hours behind

This did not work: [~]: sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 19 Feb 08:03:26 ntpdate[6939]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting So, I'm not sure how to proceed... also tried this to no avail: [~]: sudo service ntpd restart Shutting down ntpd: …
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bind cache not used?

i installed a classic bind9 dns server inside a local network, working as a forwarding dns server, there is my config file (i just added my ISP DNS servers as forwarders): options { directory "/var/cache/bind"; forwarders { 212.27.40.240; …
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Using RTC to synchronize ntpd when offline

I need a stable configuration, presumably using ntpd, to keep system clock as precise as possible. Background: I have several embedded devices (arm9) running linux (currently: 3.16.1 / debian 7.2) that are powered up at random intervals (some may be…
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Measuring request response time by port

So, I'm currently working on a project in which I spin up a set docker image on a number of different machines and configurations. This image basically contains a web server that accepts a number of different, but similar requests to a single port.…
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Check how much time has elapsed for Cron job and send email

There is a cron job that is set which runs throughout most of the day, sometimes the job gets stuck and I would like to set a time or check on it which let's me know if it has been stuck for more than 20 minutes, I wanted to get ideas on how I can…
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Server times off by over 1 minute after recently syncing

I manually synced the times (and matched hardware times) on two servers A and B. NTP was running on both machines, so I made sure the /etc/ntp.conf files were identical (the time servers on B were different, so I changed to match server A). A few…
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