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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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Domain Controller time is 7 minutes fast

I have a Server 2008 R2 domain controller running in VM on Hyper-V that is 7 minutes fast which I need to fix. I understand that this maybe down to the DC running in VM's. What I would like to know is how I can correct it? I believe I can setup…
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Samba4 AD Time Sync

I know this question is asked a lot, and I've googled for days, but none of the solutions I have found so far work. My problem is this: Windows 10 workstations are not syncing their time with my Samba4 domain controller. I have verified that ntpd is…
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RTC time is going totally wrong after a few minutes (Ubuntu 16.04 + Hyper-V)

My RTC time on my Ubuntu 16.04 is going crazy. After a few minutes the RTC time is going totaly wrong. The strange thing is, if I disable NTP Service (timedatectl set-ntp false and service ntp stop) and fix the time once (hwclock -w) the RTC time is…
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Pruning of backup files as they get older

I'm looking for a tool (for Linux) that will prune my backup files, not like the standard logrotate that completely deletes them after defined number of rotations, but where the files are basically kept permanently, except they are pruned as they…
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Testing Daylight Savings Time Switch

We have a case where we need to test some scripting and application code related to daylight savings time. We wanted to simulate the daylight savings time switch by disabling the NTP service and changing the system time into the future. Obviously…
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Fix Windows Server 2012 R2 system time?

I have managed many Windows servers for several years, but I have never experienced anything like this: We have a Windows Server 2012 R2 running as virtual machine on an Ubuntu Server with KVM. In the Windows "Date and Time" settings, I have the…
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Interpreting timestamp format on iDRAC servers

The timestamp format on the DELL iDRAC format I have is the following: 20160714195526.000000+000 20150325225105.000000+000 20150311200640.000000-300 How should I interpret it (I want to parse it to a timestamp object, e.g. get date, time and…
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Measuring system clock (time) of a remote server

What are the network protocols that can be used to measure the system clock (time) of a remote server? So far I have: Query with NTP TCP Timestamps HTTP headers Are there any other?
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How to change server time safely for testing purposes

We have a Debian server (in a VM) running a Java application on a Tomcat server, using a Postgres database. It's a testing environment, so we can do anything we want to it. Every once in a while, we would like to test some logic that is scheduled…
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MySQL logs different time than NOW()

MySQL server logs entries with different time than system or mysql itself: mysql> select @@global.time_zone; +--------------------+ | @@global.time_zone | +--------------------+ | SYSTEM | +--------------------+ mysql> select…
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change windows time synchronization settings

How do I change the settings on a windows server 2008 box, so that the server synchronizes with time.windows.com more often? Currently, it shows that the next synchronization time is 12 hrs from now. I want to synchronize more often, like once every…
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ntpd daemon doesn't start automatically in FreeBSD

I wanted to setup ntpd the right way - so not with a crontab entry. I followed the guide in the FreeBSD docs: create an entry with ntpd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf checked that everything works fine when service ntpd start is executed restart the…
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How to use logparser to query IIS log entries logged in the past N minutes?

The host is located in the EDT time zone. Event logs are logged using EDT. IIS logs are getting logged using UTC, and I'm not sure which logparser construct helps account for UTC. For example, Windows event logs, logged in local time, entries…
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Linux box time dilation, part 2

This is a follow-up to my question yesterday, linked below. I have a Fedora 10 box. When it is freshly rebooted, it keeps time very well. I test this by typing date, then enter, wait about a second, up arrow, enter, etc. to see if the seconds…
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system clock skewing backwards 112 seconds

I'm troubleshooting a problem on one of my NTP servers. This server seems to defy logic, and I'm at my wits end trying to troubleshoot it. Roughly every 162 seconds, the system clock reverts to (current time - 112 seconds), despite the hardware…
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