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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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Use shell built-in time while checking exit status of a function and suppressing output

I am attempting to do the following in a bash script and am wondering if it is possible: Time the output of a command (in this case, mysql) using time Suppress the stdout output of the command Capture the stderr output of the command in case of an…
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Increase rsyslog/syslog precision to include fractional seconds?

I use syslog and rsyslog to handle logging on my Linux & FreeBSD systems. The timestamp is currently in seconds but I would like to increase the precision of these timestamps to include milliseconds. Is this possible using the syslog variants such…
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Clock is 10% faster than normal

I'm having some strange problem with the clock on my server – it's about 10% faster than normal. The problem started 2 days ago and I've not done anything special with the server. I tried to turn of the ntp update by stopping the ntpd daemon. It…
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Time taken for authentication to work again after changing system time

One of our domain controllers clock drifted way out of sync with the rest of the network (thanks to me forgetting to turn off VMWare's time synchronisation), which caused a whole bunch of servers to lose their ability to authenticate, given that…
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Ubuntu linux takes longer time for incorrect passwords

When I log into my Ubuntu 8.10 box with a correct password the system figures out almost instantaneously that the password is correct and logs me in. However, if I supply an incorrect password, it takes significantly longer to figure out that the…
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ESXi VM NTP Server

We need to setup an internal NTP server. Because this server will pretty much ONLY be a time server I was thinking of just creating a VM for it. However, Googling around it appears that there there might be serious clock drifting issues with VM…
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Reliable Time Protocol Server Online?

I have some OLD legacy hardware that I'd like to keep time synchronized on. It supports the TIME protocol (not NTP). Are there any reliable TIME servers online anymore? If so, where? -M
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Docker - Timezones in containers not same as on host

In all my running docker containers the containers system time is set to UTC whereas on my host (debian) its CEST. Why dont they sync automaticly? How do i make them set the right time when bringing them up? root@v2201510680628925:/home/jacob#…
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Server clock running too slow

The system clock on my dedicated server is running too slow. Every month it loses about 2 minutes. The details are: Cent OS, Linux version 2.6.9. How can I resolve the problem, is there any way to check whether it's a hardware or software?
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What is the minimum annual overhead required to admin an On-Premises Exchange Server

I help run three businesses, and we use two Exchange servers (Windows SBS) for basic email and file sharing. These seem to take up a lot of admin time when contrasted with the linux file server we have, which basically "just works". Is this…
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Superblock last mount time is in the future

Yesterday, I encountered a confusing problem. During booting, the system complained that the superblock last mount time is in the future and asks me to fsck. I have used Debian Squeeze for months and encountered the problem for the first time. I…
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How to find source of system running slow clock?

I've a problem on one of my Gentoo server. After some time, the clock starts running very very slow. It takes about one minute for one second to go. The major problem is that not only the clock is impacted but the system is running slow as well. If…
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MySQL Time Different from System Time

I'm having an issue where MySQL is reporting the time as six minutes later than the system time. I have verified all my timezone settings are correct but don't know how to troubleshoot the six minute difference: mysql> SELECT…
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Why is the time on my Server 2008 R2 DC wrong? It's syncing to ntp.org, it claims

OK. After a lot of fun with syncing time across my workstations, I got that sorted out. My workstations are now perfectly synced with my Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller (physical server, not virtual). Unfortunately, that means all our computers are…
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Is timesync still required for Windows Server 2012 R2?

Our servers are on a workgroup, we are a small company and do not use a domain controller. In Windows Server 2008 R2 we used TimeSync to help keep the most accurate time, not sure it was really necessary. We're reloading our servers with Windows…
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