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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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Robocopy website deployment script log file name truncated in AM

This is an IIS website deployment script I started to write. It moves files from directory A to directory B and creates a log file with the date/time as the file name. When it's run in the AM hours, the time part of the log file name gets…
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Date / time out of sync by days

I have several 2003 servers in my domain that randomly change their date/time by several days, sometimes. They are all getting their time from an AD server acting as the primary DC. I have looked in the event viewer to find that in the evening the…
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Page response time in foreign countries

We are currently preparing to deploy our software in an non EU country. Any hints, how I can check response times from any country? Just to get a feeling when we have to use CDS and stuff...
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Correcting the server time on a Debian box - root user time already correct

Hey All, Got a box running Debian. I've set the root user time to the correct BST time. However, when I log in the server time and date which is shown is wrong: e.g. http://www.5bars.co.uk/time.png (sorry no imageembedding for newbs like me) This…
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Why does my system clock differ across services?

I have my system clock set to UK time, which is currently +0100 (BST) I set this by symlinking the localtime file, as follows /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London The date command correctly shows the time as +0100. File…
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How does find command sort results?

I have an old messy shell script. One of the steps executes find command with some parameters and expects the results to be sorted by creation time. It works well on old machines (find version is 4.1.7). On newer machines the results of find are not…
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Exchange 2007 Move Database - How Long Is It Estimated to Take?

We are planning to move our Exchange DB to an EMC SAN (NS-120) with plenty of drive space from our 2007 Exchange server native storage which is getting low on space but not critically low on space (yet). From what I can find online, a 79Gb Exchange…
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throw memory to a process

I have a process that inserts 10 million records into a mysql db and is running on a linux box with (4 * 2.13GHz processors + 4 gigs of Memory ). Right now it takes ~2 hours to complete and I'm not sure if the process utilizes all the processors.…
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Average response time

Im trying to find some benchmarks for average response time. We have 3 sites that have a response time between 5-7 seconds. They are US sites but their servers are located in the UK, could this have a huge negative impact on the response time. What…
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SW clock drift problem

i got a problem: my linux software clock seems so have a big drift. In order to correct this (and to make ntpd work) I ran adjtimex. And adjtimex "meassured" a drift over -1700s/day and corrected this drift. Of course, this totally wrong, but now…
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Change local time on XP box - local admin but group policy restricts time change

I am a developer in need of doing some temporal unit testing on my local XP box. I am local admin but there is a group policy enforced centrally that prohibits changing local time (a severe case of managment treating in-house devs same as every…
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Query NTPD's monlist remotely?

How do I query NTPD for monlist remotely? It would be nice to be able to keep track of what's happening with the time server!
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Limit time change in Windows

Is there a way to limit the users ability to change time by more than an hour?
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How long it takes to start Bind?

I'm testing DNSSEC and I need to obtain the time in miliseconds it takes to start Bind now that I have signed zones. I don't know if this would be the right way to do it: time svcadm enable svc:/network/dns/server:default Regards, Arancha
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NTPD on RedHat ES4 not synching to Win2K3 domain controler

I'm having an incredibly difficult time trying to get my red hat server to sync its time to our 2K3 domain controller. I've been through numerous ntp.conf revisions and it always ends up that the domain controller is not even listed as a contender…
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