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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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Why does host+curl take longer than host alone and curl alone?

I asked this on networkengineering.se, and they suggested I move it here. I tried to test the speed of my website, so I used time curl "http://google.com" The result ended with real 0m15.589s user 0m0.012s sys 0m0.000s I tried to see what took…
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Time issue in Windows domain Hyper-V

I ran command on our Domain Controller that has PDC Emulator Role: w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:"0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 2.pool.ntp.org 3.pool.ntp.org" /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update This is a physical server. On our Hyper-V…
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date and sleep during leap second

Did you ever watch what happens with a sleep during a leap second or what date will show us? Most UNIX systems can handle a sleep with a fraction of a second and the date command can display milliseconds. I didn't look at the source but will the…
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Crontab not executing

I'm running CentOS 6.2, trying to run tasks through cron. I've verified crond is running $ service crond status crond (pid 20553) is running... I have no /etc/cron.allow file, but I do have an /etc/cron.deny file that is empty. I've checked the…
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Windows Event Log SystemTime format

The follwing timestamp was created during an Windows Security Log TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2013-10-07T07:31:09.122037600Z In this timestamp I can't understand what 122037600Z part means? Do they represent milliseconds or something? Please i…
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I need a script to lockdown the system time to users via gpedit.msc

I need to lockdown the system time on a number of PCs via gpedit.msc and then removing administrators from the group and then adding 'administrator' and 'polling'. Can I do this via a script? Essentially I have to; Run gpedit.msc Computer…
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Multiple NTP Server Instances on One Server (Linux)

Is it possible to run multiple NTP server instances on the same system? We're using CentOS for our NTP system and want to synchronize specific time depending on what interface the client comes in on. Thanks.
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What do negative numbers under TIME+ in htop mean?

What do the red negative numbers I'm seeing displayed in htop mean? Should I be worried?
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Convert 1 second delay in 200,000KM to delay in 825 miles?

I would like to know the delay in 825 miles of fiber if there is 1 second of delay in 200,000KM of fiber without counting for re-gen sites?
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How to change time on local NTP server and distribute to others?

Is there any solution to retrieve time from a NTP server and change time locally (Increase or decrease) and then distribute new time to other servers? As an example, server retrieve UTC time and change it +1 (Or increase by one hour) and then…
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Incorrect Ubuntu server time

I use 14.04.1-Ubuntu. When execute date in command line, I get time which about 1 min different comparing Greenwich Mean Time or other source. I synchronized it using sudo ntpdate -s time.nist.gov few months ago but it jumped away again. Why does it…
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Scheduler to switch things on/off based on weekday, date and time of day

I'm looking for a Linux program that can give me an on/off answer based on time. I'm thinking of something that can read simple rules like these mon-wed 18:30-21:15 thu 17:30-21:15 fri 14:00-17:00 2016.10.10 10:00-13:00 and give me a…
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How to set a timezone of an E2 instance?

I have a Ubuntu server on Amazon AWS EC2. When I log in there, I see there the following system information: System information as of Mon Apr 11 06:42:30 UTC 2016 I am currently in LA, CA - so here's +3 hours from the datetime above. In the best…
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linux + change/edit file without effecting on file date

I want to edit some file in my linux for example ls -ltr /etc/some_file -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 188 Jul 1 2010 sysstat . echo "Server101_IP=187.0.98.4" >> /etc/some_file . I expect to get the following date: ls -ltr…
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Time on Windows servers out and won't stay corrected

I have a bunch of windows servers that are VM's running on a group of hypervisors, all in a domain environment. Its a mix of Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016 For some reason the clock is out by about 7 minutes on most servers. When I amend the clocks…
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