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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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Setting up your linux box for GMT

I would like to get my server time as close to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) as possible. What is best way to do this? It's Ubuntu 10
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Server Time Jumped Ahead 7 Months

CentOS 5.x My CentOS server appears to have jumped ahead 7 months. I'm not sure how or why. Are there any logs in CentOS that could provide more insight here? Unfortunately, ntpd was not running. I've since configured/enabled it and the…
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Why SQL Server DateTime, Show AM, but not show PM?

See below image, The UpdateDate column show datetime containing 'AM' text But the CreateDate show datetime, text 'PM' is not shown. these 2 columns are auto-generated, and data type is DateTime. Update Date is :8/19/2010 10:27:20 AM Create Date is…
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How was my ubuntu server's time set without ntp?

I was just installing ntp on an ubuntu server that had the wrong time by a minute, and I got to wondering, how did it get any time at all to begin with? Is there some other process that sets the time at boot time? Or was this initial time just…
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Incorrect file creation/modication time in linux

In our server we get files uploaded daily by customers via FTP. However sometime the the time stamp of these appear incorrect even though the server time is correct. I got a file with time stamp Jun 27 when actually the date was Jun 25. The server…
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bash: convert iso dates to d:m:y

I have a program, which produces output like this (iso format dates): 2010-06-04 15:48:17 +0200 2010-06-04 12:34:39 +0200 2010-02-01 14:02:44 +0200 2010-06-04 12:21:19 +0200 2010-06-04 12:21:04 +0200 2009-05-02 15:38:14 +0200 2009-03-02 15:38:09…
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What is normal SCSI error handling process (scsi_eh_3) CPU time usage?

Last week I got setup with a new dedicated server that is running 4x SCSI drives in RAID 10 on CentOS. The machine is pretty lightly loaded at the moment and has been running for 8 days. The process 'scsi_eh_3' has a CPU time of 13:09.67 in top.…
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Hardware multipliers

Can someone explain the different system multipliers? I know this is a base clock (a.k.a the System clock) then there is a multiplier for the Front side bus (FSB), RAM module, maybe for the RAM chips, and other internal busses like PCI, AGP, etc. …
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How do I update the server time for Ubuntu Gutsy?

My Ubuntu Gutsy server is a full 2 minutes off of the "official" time.gov time...and appears to slowly be getting more and more off. How can I get the time back on track and keep it correct?
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SQL Server not liking dates in YYYY-MM-DD format

Is there a setting in SQL Server which will persuade it to accept 'yyyy-mm-dd' style dates in a query. Got queries which are running fine on most of our SQL servers one box running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer doesn't like them. This is the…
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Docker - linux container run on Windows has different time

I work on Windows 10. I use a docker image based on Ubuntu 18.04 (FROM ubuntu:18.04). When I run a Linux container using Docker the time returned by "date" command differs from the time on the Windows host machine. The time in the Linux container is…
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time nohup ./script --> the time hasn't been logged

I need to measure the time that Firefox takes to build itself from the source code. Here's what I do normaly: nohup ./mach build > my_log.log & I then prepended time to it: time nohup ./mach build > my_log.log & However, this hasn't made it…
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Ubuntu 20.04 refuses to sync time with Windows AD, how to trouble shoot?

I am trying to sync a Ubuntu 20.04 client to a Windows AD time server. But time will never sync. Here is what I know so far: Windows server is listening on port 123 for NTP, and replies to requests. I am using timedatectl. systemd-timesyncd.service…
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How can the local time clock of a server become the NTP time source in a network?

I want to make a the local te clock in a Stratum 1 server be the network time source for my network (I don't want a Stratum 0 server with the antenna). How may I set this up in a network? Is there a tutorial which explains how to use network time…
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systemd-timedated.service: Failed to determine whether NTP is enabled: Link has been severed

Encountering this issue with RHEL 7.9 (Maipo). One server in particular is having issues with timedatectl, systemd-timedated.service, and chrony. If we run timedatectl $ timedatectl Failed to query server: Connection timed out Further, if we…
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