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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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Apache TOP command time format?

When running top on an Apache server, what is the time format for the output? For instance, is it minute:second.second? https://i.stack.imgur.com/fMbcf.png Edit: I'm running on Ubuntu 14.04 and the header of the column is TOP+.
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Binding timestamp value to a variable in crontab

I'm basically trying to declare a variable with a date() value in crontab as I will constantly be using the same date structure over and over, here is what my crontab looks like so far. php = '/usr/bin/php' dir = '/var/www/bkd' logs =…
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bash date not using the set timezone

I have export TZ="/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London" in my .bashrc file, but the following output the time in UTC (GMT) export TM=`date +%H%M%S` export DTTM="`date +%a\ %F\ %T\ %Z`"
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How can I select ntp the time source for a system?

I have two Windows 2008 servers running Meinburg NTP. When I run ntpq.exe -p from one, I see that there are sources specified as current, selected, or discarded (via a +, -, or *). On another system, it shows the same sources; but there are no marks…
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wordpress, cron & time - does time on server affects plugins? how to fix it? (virtualbox)

I'm running wp on lamp install in virtual machine. I frequently pause it, save snapshots, etc. Date and time aren't correct because of this and i think i noticed weird behavior of plugins that use cron. How do i fix my time and plugins? Maybe i…
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Exchange 2007 ResetSearchIndex.ps1 time

I am relatively new to exchange. We are running Exchange 2007 sp2 for a medium/large institution and we are having trouble with OWA's search function not working. I was going to try running ResetSearchIndex.ps1 but it looks like it needs to be run…
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Meinberg NTP Client large wandering

All, One of the computers on my network runs Windows Embedded Standard and is running the meinberg NTP client and gets its time directly from a GPS clock. The service is set to run automatically and when it restarts it is very close to the GPS…
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What authentication methods use the system clock to assist authentication?

What authentication methods use the system clock to assist authentication? I have encountered issues in the past with CA and my system clock being slightly out of what sync with what it should be in terms of seconds and minutes, but not hour. What…
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configuring server time to allow for daylight savings

Ive got a script that is allows users to submit data to a db, when data is submitted a timestamp is also added, my local time zone is GMT, as is my server time as set it plesk 11, but when the data comes in its an hour behind, due to daylight…
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Average time to retrieve the data from hard drive?

Is there a formula to approximate data transfer times from hard disks? For example, suppose I want to retrieve a 512 byte sector of data off a 7200RPM hard disk with an average seek time of 9 milliseconds, and a nominal data transfer rate of 15MB/s.…
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How to change the current time inside apache and mysql from shell in ubuntu?

I need to test my backend with different times without change the code.
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Review of a crontab script to add timestamps to minutely runs; any suggestions?

I've got a crontab job set to run minutely as such: * * * * * /home/username/public_html/domain.tld/production/scripts/cron_runner.sh My goal is to add some timestamps to output from cron so I can find things more easily with regards to some points…
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Set system time using SNMP?

Is it possible to set system time on Windows Server using SNMP? So you push out the time instead of using NTP
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CentOS 6 recompile PHP and Freetds

I got something wrong with the default freetds (v 0.9.2) in my CentOS 6, reading the datetime from sql server is messed up in using mssql (dblib) extension, and it's said recompile php with current freetds would fix datetime problem. My question is,…
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Getting irregular timestamps on NFS file server

Here is the situation: We have a file server that is not saving timestamps to a small portion of its files (77 files out of several million). It instead writes a default mtime of 1969-12-31 19:00 (Unix epoch). When this does happen, it happens…
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