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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time nohup ./script --> the time hasn't been logged [closed]
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:
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Windows Server 2022 Time Service Jumping into the future
A handful of times over the last few months one of our Windows Server 2022 boxes will show a warning in the Event Log similar to this
The time service has set the time with offset 19630688 seconds.,
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What data type do big applications use to store time data?
I am trying to find out which data type is better to store time data inside either MySQL or Cassandra database for a big application like Facebook or Instagram? There are a lot of similar questions ...
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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.
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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 ...
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What is changing my Windows Server's date?
At my organisation we have a number of virtual machines on ESXi hosts in a number of sites.
For the past few months, around once or twice a week one virtual machine, seemingly at random, will update ...
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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 ...
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Geting UNIX Timestamp while logging history
I am running below bash script which is saving the history in a file, however it is logging the history with Unix epoch timestamp. I need the timestamp in human readable format.
_who_am_i=$(who am i|...
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Windows NTP Server Registry Configuration
I inherited an environment with a Windows 2012R2 Domain Controller (serverA) set as the NTP server. This server is going to be retired shortly for a new (separate) 2019 instance. The domain controller ...
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Timezone with 12h time format (AM/PM)
I have a problem with timezone in debian
I need to set up zone with 12h format (AM/PM) throughout the system. Locale set to "en_US.UTF.8", output "date" command is correctly. Time ...
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chrony: hosting time with RTC as authoritative clock on an air-gapped (isolated) system
I have an isolated and air-gapped LAN that I want to synchronise. I have one host that will be the authoritative time server for all clients on the LAN. It's not important that the LAN time reflects ...
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Windows Server sometimes has wrong date
Having a Windows Server 2016 (hosted at Amazon AWS EC2) that is running successfully for years.
Since some month I'm experiencing that the Scheduled Tasks (e.g. a task that is configured to run daily) ...
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What was linux/unix time standard before inventing epoch? [closed]
As in the title, I was looking for, but hadn't found. How were time stored and processed before epoch standardizing in 2000?
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Incorrect PTP timestamps [closed]
I have trouble syncing to Linux systems using PTP.
Setup:
Two PCBs with a BegleCore module and a DP83640 PHY are connected with each other over Ethernet. One board should act as the PTP master, the ...
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Domain users last logon time on a specific (domain joined) computer
So I have all the once_logged_in profiles listed in C:\Users folder but I need to find out when was the last time these users logged in onto the same computer locally or remotely with their domain ...
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AWS time traveling issues with dhclient
I am a QA software engineer working on integration tests that require changes on the system clock to simulate the pass of the time. When running those tests on AWS EC2 instances I got unexpected ...
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CRONTAB - Summer/Winder Time-Change
Since there can be problems with the time change from summer/winter or winter/summer, I wanted to ask how I could solve the problem within the bash script-2?
I think in the winter time it should not ...
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Ububut 18.0.4 LTS:- unable to start TCP/UDP discard service on port 9 and time service on port 37
I have ubuntu client 18.0.4, I am unable to telnet localhost on port 9 and port 37.
root@ubuntu:~# telnet 127.0.0.1 37
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
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Sync ntp immediately at boot with undiciplined clock
I have setup one ntp server and 5 clients. I want to force sync the clients to server clock on boot. With my current ntp settings the computers are syncing but after several minutes. I cannot wait so ...
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chrony time server cannot synchronize with time servers from the internet
My chrony time server with the version: 3.5-6ubuntu6.2, can get the time from another internal time server but not from time servers on the Internet. Could you please help me to synchronize my chrony ...
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PPS Integration with chrony
I am trying to get chrony to ingest a PPS signal to compare against just an NTP server. The PPS signal is recognized when I do ppswatch and ppstest, but when I do chronyc sources, the LastRX field ...
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Windows Server VMs have incorrect time on boot (Esxi 6.7.0 Update 3)
We run ESXI 6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 14320388).
The Windows 2019 VMs running on that host, when they boot, their time is incorrect.
I have to manually open the Windows settings and set off and back on ...
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PowerShell: How to check a recurrent week time interval?
I need to create a PowerShell script, able to collect some data at each minute.
However, this script cannot run during the "technical windows", that are scheduled to occur at the same week ...
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How to change time on local NTP server and distribute to others? [closed]
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 ...
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Linux DST - 25.10.2020 - change did not occur - old linux bug?
we have a strange problem on older linux kernel embedded devices that still uses /etc/tz and $TZ for setting the timezone and dst
Our TZ variable has value: 'MET-1MEDT,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/03:00
And ...
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How to name a folder with today's date and time?
So i have this lil .bat setup
@ECHO OFF
echo %date%
Copy D:\000Back\list.txt D:\111Back\
CD D:\111Back\
copy list.txt %date%_%time%.txt
ECHO done
PAUSE
The second copy command never goes through, ...
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Is it possible to have user time > wall time? [closed]
I have obtained the following results from executing a script:
real 0m1.027s
user 0m1.752s
I understand that:
Real time is the wall time. This is the time I would have obtained if I have measured ...
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Redhat Enterprise Linux 7: How to disable DST - Daylight Saving Time
We have 16 Linux RHEL 7.5 servers in a cluster and servers are sync with crony service to NTP server
We have two questions
How to know if DST is configured on our servers?
How to disable the DST on ...
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Centos Linux stuck in time
Has anyone seen the Linux time being stuck, it has been driving me nuts since yesterday.
# date
Thu Apr 2 16:35:04 UTC 2020
# date
Thu Apr 2 16:35:04 UTC 2020
# date
Thu Apr 2 16:35:04 UTC 2020
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Subsequent calls to WMIC return a localdatetime with a deviating timezone
The problem
In our company environment we use several batch files which use WMIC to retrieve the current time. Usually to print it to log files, but also to include the timestamp in a file name.
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linux + understanding Chrony logs and conclusions from logs
we are using chrony service in order to sync linux clients to NTP server in our cluster
since we get diff time between machines
we enable the chrony logs to understand the reasons that machines in ...
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Centos NTP time skew alerts [duplicate]
I have a couple of NTP Stratum 2 servers, and these are in sync with a Stratum 1 GPS appliance, and also peered between them selves. I would be interested in creating a job, which will create an alert ...
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One RDP session time off by 6 minutes compared to server time
We have a customer with a Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Server.
When we log onto the server via RDP as User1, the time in the RDP session matches the time of the server.
When we log onto the ...
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Local GPS clock is marked as falseticker by ntpd — why?
I have a Linux NTP server with a ublox M8Q GPS module connected via GPIO (UART @ 9600bps and PPS).
What I observe is that the local GPS source — SHM(0) — gets marked as falseticker and I'd like to ...
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Convert date and time from output
I have a file with date and time on a couple thousand lines.
I need to convert:
2019/08/02-01:23:50+0000
To:
02/Aug/2019-01:23:50 +0000
I so far have
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Why is the year in this ISO timestamp not 2019?
For a simple app I'm using to test a devops pipeline I'm outputting the start time of a build to the homepage. On my development machine the year of the ISO-8601 timestamp I expect, 2019, is printed (...
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Machines experience time offset despite chronyd service running
we have 3 machines in the cluster ( redhat 7.2 )
linux_machine1
linux_machine2
linux_machine3
the machines time are like this
Sun Sep 1 13:54:20 UTC 2019 - linux_machine1
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Manually change the time in CentOS 7 forwards and backwards
I want to do tests with some time based applications.
I want to set the system time 3 days in the future or 5 years in the past.
CentOS 7 is not allowing me to do this.
Both commands below work, ...
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understanding windows time configuration
I wish to set external time source for all Vms and HyperVs in several domains. Most of the systems are windows Server 2012 R2 or Server 2016. I have been reading a lot of explanations and I somehow ...
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Local x Server processing time (only CPU)
I'm having some HUGE differences on running time when comparing local x server processes.
Our laboratory has a dedicated server running Ubuntu 14 LTS as OS and PBS for Job scheduling. In total, there ...
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Inconsistent elapsed time for mysql/mariadb query
Checking the elapsed time for a database query for munin monitoring,I have created a script, the time measurement part being:
start=$(sed 's/^0*//'<<< `date +%N`)
/usr/bin/mysql -u 3da_d9 -p*...
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filtering event logs with specific TIME range of ANY day
How can I query windows server events between two times of any day?
I have tried with PowerShell...
Get-EventLog -Logname xxxx -After 04:00:00 -Before 04:00:30
...but just returns today's events
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Server 2016 Session time limits for specific users
I am aware you can set session time limits for all idle/disconnected users on Server 2012/2016 etc, however I was wondering if there is a way to end disconnected/idle session only for some users and ...
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rsync --link-dest. Time to 'building file list" incrementing
I've been running rsync as a cygwin task on Windows Server 2008 for about two months now. I'm using the --link-dest option to do a daily 'snapshot' of the contents of a server containing about 10TB ...
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Properly setting date on Linux machines
I am trying to set the system date on my linux machine. If it matters, it is an Amazon EC2 machine that I provisioned. I tried to set the date with this command:
sudo date -s "19 APR 2018 11:14:00";
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Why did w32tm /resync cause it to correct itself, then overshoot?
Background:
My LAN's Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller had been running without any external time server for a few years and I finally synchronized it now. It had been running about 2 minutes ...
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How do I change the date in Google Cloud Container-Optimized OS?
I try to set date:
sudo date -s "28 OCT 2018 15:00:00"
but before I need to disable NTP
timedatectl set-ntp false
Google Cloud Container-Optimized OS doesn't have timedatectl util
-bash: ...
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CRON messages being delayed for arbitrary long time in syslog
I found in a few servers's syslog that some of the CRON related messages are written in a wrong time, like the following:
Aug 21 06:26:01 hty-controller CRON[30159]: (root) CMD ( python /.../...
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NTP does not update until after I poll it
I have NTP setup to run with GPSd and all is well. The issue arises after about a week of my raspberry pi being disconnected, NTP will trust the old date on the system clock. Since the GPS takes a ...
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linux system time temporally jumps
I saw a strange system time changing behavior in some (hardware) servers: in /var/logs/syslog, the date time preceding each log message sometimes change to a random one and gets back to normal in the ...
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