Questions tagged [time]
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.
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Linux time incorrect
I've a Ruby file which executing creates and XML file and saves it. Every time it does it the time for the file (last modification) is incorrect (1 hour ahead).
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converting INT to DATE / TIME
I have a table that holds date and time values as INT data type. eg a date is stored as YYYYMMDD, like 20110901 and a time is stored as HHMMSS, like 21826.
The date is close to ISO standard so its ...
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Windows Time out of sync
We have 5 virtual Windows 2003 servers running Citrix in our company, that users can log onto,
Every so often one of the servers will change it's date/time so far ahead, users are unable to log on ...
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Managing multi-timezone servers
What would be an ideal time and timezone setup for multi-country servers? Especially considering one central IT team managing these servers.
Currently we have each server using a local timezone. e.g. ...
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How can I sync time between two ubuntu computers, not connected to the internet
I have two computers connected to each other over an ad-hoc wifi. How can I make the first computer always sync to the time of the second computer?
I tried playing with NTP, but could not figure out ...
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Why are my servers clock out of sync?
The domain time is now out of sync by 4 mins and its getting on my nerves, I ran a quick check to see if I could determine how much it was out by exactly and got this back:
H:\>w32tm /stripchart /...
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changing timezone affects cron time
I have set up a cron to run at every 26th minute.
$ crontab -l
26 * * * * date > /home/time.txt 2> /home/time_err.txt
The current time shown by date command.
$ date
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Checking the current time on an ESX server from the vSphere client
What is the easiest way to check the current time on an ESX server from a machine which has the vSphere infrastructure client installed on it ?
In other words, is there any way to get the current ...
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Time problems on my Synology NAS 1511 running Busybox linux
I'm running a MS windows, using Netbeans 7. I occasionally get a problem when I hit save, "This file was modified externally, are you sure you want to overwrite"
Further investigation has led me to ...
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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 ...
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How time is affected by the ntpd and /etc/localtime
Can anyone explain how ntpd and /etc/localtime and system clock interact with each other, in UNIX or more specific in freeBSD?
I'm giving the following long description of the concepts in case I ...
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Configuring time sync on domain
I have an AD domain (2 dcs single domain) and a number of member servers. I need to configure time synchronisation so that everything is in sync.
There is a lot of fluff on this topic. Does anyone ...
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Getting time to sync with NTP on Centos 5 VM
My Centos 5 VM is drifting time.
I have scoured different answers to solve this problem.
I've looked at the VMWare's tips and added tinker panic 0 on top of my ntp.conf file. I also changed the ...
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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, ...
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Time too quick in debian, 72 minutes pass in system date in one real world second
Having trouble with system date/time in GNU/Linux/Debian:
Time goes too fast for date, time, cron.
The sleep command works fine, file modification times are correct.
The issue explained via commands:
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How do I force sync the time on Windows Workstation or Server?
What is the command to sync a Windows workstation or server to its configured time source?
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VMware: How to keep time in guest after suspend
I have Gentoo installed as guest OS. I have hardware clock synced with host system, but the clock of OS tend to be wrong after suspend.
The only solution I find out is run hwclock -s frequently via ...
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Time Synchronization for Domain Controllers Virtualized Via Hyper-V
I would like to know if someone can recommend a better way to configure domain time synchronization for a group of Windows Server 2008 R2 servers than what I currently have configured. I have three ...
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modification time of file in future, but timezone is set correctly
Files that I am creating at a Unix server are created with a modification time that lies 5 days in future. But when I check with the date command, it seems, that timezone and date are set correctly. :
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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 ...
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Unix Timestamp in Apache Combined Log?
So basic question, but I can't seem to find an easy answer.
How do I record the date/time in my apache logs to have a unix timestamp (seconds since epoch).
I have the default LogFormat as:
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What consequences / implications can arise from a wrong system clock?
What issues can you think of that may arise from a wrong system clock setting ?
Primarily interested in potential problems affecting servers and Linux or UNIX-like systems in particular.
And how ...
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Best way to say "sync all system clocks to this server, when and ONLY when I say so?" Mixed setup of Windows+Linux servers
Title pretty much explains it. Let's say there's 100 servers, various versions of Windows and Linux, and one Windows server is the "master clock." I did look at this question:
How do I synchronize ...
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Time cron not working
10 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org >/dev/null 2>&1
The idea is to sync time every 10 minutes.
However im waiting now for 15 minutes and
nano /var/log/cron
still returns empty.
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How to sync time across Windows servers to the millisecond precision?
I really need to keep time tightly in sync between my Windows 2008 R2 servers and was expecting that Windows Time Service will do that... but sometimes difference between my clocks is over couple ...
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Store TIME in SQL
What is the correct way to store the TIME of day in SQL?
Have a field that cares only when an action took place. Example values will be 2:30 PM or 14:30, it doesn't matter to me which. This ...
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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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How precise is cron?
I am trying to set up a python script to query a DB for all updates over the past 5 minutes. Given the number of updates, it must be as precise as possible (our records are timestamped to the ...
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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 (...
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Windows 2003 server time reset
We had a situation where the time on a Windows 2003 server was getting set back spontaneously. We discounted the possibility of another computer on the network acting as a time master and causing ...
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Can't set date on Debian Amazon EC2 isntance
I don't know if the fact that the server is an Amazon EC2 instance makes any difference, but I thought I should mention it.
I'm trying to set the time to an incorrect time for testing reasons.
The ...
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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
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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....
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How do I troubleshoot root cause of a hung windows (2003) server?
I have a pair of Windows (2003 Server) servers both running MS SQL Server (2008 EE) that each hang every few months. This has been occurring intermittently :( for the past 15 months pretty much since ...
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Seemingly high clock skew between four systems, normal?
I'm researching a bit of a problem maintaining time synchronization between systems. I finally decided to measure the actual clock variance between hosts, and found that over the course of 13 hours, ...
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Windows Time management: Domain Time II a neccessary product? [closed]
I ask as I have become part of a network where they have w32 time disabled on machines, and use Domain Time II. Product info here: http://www.greyware.com/software/domaintime/
Just curious if anyone ...
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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 (...
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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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Need to Override Automatic Time Set on a Test Server [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Stop Active Directory from updating computer time and date
I have a question similar to some others I've seen here. I have a development server running Windows Server 2003 ...
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Windows Server Cluster & Strange Day Light Savings Time Behaviour
Over the weekend (Sunday March 27th) Daylight Savings Time kicked in here in Ireland and so all the servers (all win2k3 server) in our Production Environment updated their Times +1 Hour. However ...
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System clock drifting out of sync with hwclock and ntpd
My current system drifts from the hwclock and ntpd dramatically. I've looked at many forums and posts online and on SF, but haven't found a suitable solution.
Here is my ntpq -pn output:
remote ...
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Stop Active Directory from updating computer time and date
This office runs an active directory on windows servers. Some 2003 DCs some 2008 R2 DCs
A user (The QA analyst) requested that he is able to change his time and it not be changed back after 5-10 ...
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Allow Facebook access only in specific hours of the day with squid
I've been able to install squid on my Ubuntu Server with basic authentication and everything works perfectly.
Recently the boss asked to block facebook access and I did it with no problems.
Now it ...
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Odd behaviour of gettimeofday on RHEL5 server
I'm experiencing very odd behaviour from Time::HiRes on RHEL5. Since Time::HiRes is in the Perl standard installation, and is basically a wrapper around the gettimeofday system call, I'm inclined to ...
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Crontab : is there any log with begin and end time?
I have a lot of crontask on my linux servers for our applications. But I don't find any way to know when a task end, and how long it run.
Must I add a soft like time command to log this? Is there any ...
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Reset kernel time (PLL/FLL)
ntp trys to adjust the kernel's time variables, in order to improve the performance of a free-running time.
I am searching a way to reset these variables, but I can't find a programm/command to do ...
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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 ...
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System time is wrong in Proxmox VE host, how can I fix it?
I'm using the latest version of Proxmox VE (which is based on Debian) and I can't fix the wrong time problem:
$ pveversion -v
pve-manager: 1.7-11 (pve-manager/1.7/5470)
running kernel: 2.6.32-4-pve
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Unix timestamp deviation
I have two Ubuntu servers which synchronize their timestamp to europe.pool.ntp.org every night.
Just before they sync, I can see a difference of 4 seconds between the two servers.
One of the servers ...
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Time difference between two machine clocks?
Is it possible to measure or some other way find out the difference in clock/time between two windows 2k8 r2 machines?
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