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Does it matter which NTP time server do I choose in Windows?
When enabling Windows to set system time via Internet, I'm presented with the following dialog:
Does it matter which time server I choose?
How would I know if one was "better" than the others?
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How can I check a system's current NTP configuration?
I need to verify the current NTP configuration on some Windows systems. Ideally, I'd like to be able to do this via command line instead of navigating through configuration screens (especially since ...
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Linux stuck one hour ahead (CentOS)
I use CentOS, and for some reason, one of the servers I bought (amongst a network of other servers I do not own) is off by one hour. The time is one hour ahead no matter what time zone I set it to.
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Change Linux System Time Relatively
I need a script which will modify the system time by x amount of minutes. Something like:
#time = 12:56
#x = 2
if time_bool:
time = time + x
#time = 12:58
else:
time = time - x
#time = ...
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Wrong time update when rebooting Archlinux - Windows 7
I've been using archlinux for a while but as the only SO in a hard drive. Today I decided to make a dual boot between windows 7 and archlinux, everything works fine but I have the following problem:
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Why do people care so much about boot time of an operating system? [closed]
I run both Windows and Linux, and I rarely restart my computer, once a week or a month. I just close the lid to put it to sleep or just press sleep. But whenever I see an operating system being ...
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sh: time command not found
In llvm 3.0 test-suite, the snippet of code bellow gives the following error on bash:
sh: time command not found
if [ "x$RHOST" = x ] ; then
( sh -c "$ULIMITCMD $TIMEIT -p sh -c '$COMMAND ...
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How to make mplayer or VLC start playing video at strict time?
I want mplayer and VLC start playing at exact time. Player should:
Load video file, buffer it, prepare everything;
Wait for UNIX time to be N seconds M milliseconds
Start playing according to ...
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Using find -mmin to find files with modification time in the future
I can use
find . -mmin -5
to find files changed in last 5 minutes. However if I try to find files with modification time in the future by giving negative number find refuses to do it:
find . -mmin ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 time keeps changing unexpectedly
There is a serious problem with one of my servers time.
At some random hours (5:59 localtime in the following example) it goes 1 hour back and keeps doing this again and again next times it reaches ...
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UTF/unix time conversion in access
I am fairly good with access/excel/etc. However I am running into a brick wall with a database I query regularly for information. It has date/time fields that are tracked in unix time format (number ...
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Determine the time difference between two linux servers
I am troubleshooting a latency network issue on a network. It is probably a nic or cabling issue, but while I was going through the process of figuring it out, I was looking at the timings of a ping ...
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Ubuntu: what does time command output means?
From running time over my program I've got:
real 4m41.679s
user 20m58.623s
sys 0m49.471s
What does this output means?
What is real and what is user?
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How to decipher time in console
I'm reading my console logs and trying to figure out how to interpret the time stamp that console displays:
Time 1332251808
TimeNanoSec 72951500
I also have another time stamp that reads:
Time ...
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unexpected return value of time command
These commands work fine: (calculates time between opening and closing the program)
time gedit
time emacs
time vim
But this command always gives a time under 1 second. It's probably time which ...
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How do I decode the “Faulting application start time” in a Windows event log entry?
An app I was running crashed and I wanted to know when it happened, so I opened up the Windows event viewer and looked for an entry. I found the entry, and then noticed one of the details of the ...
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Dynamic time in Excel spreadsheet column
I am trying to automate time in Excel. I have two columns that show time advancing in minutes and seconds. I want to be able to automate so that if the time changes in one row, it will automatically ...
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How do I use options with time?
Whenever I try to use options with the time command, such as format (-f, --FORMAT), I get the following error:
bash: -f: command not found
How do I use options with time?
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How inaccurate must the clock's time be for NTLM requests to be denied due to the time being incorrect?
We have a network where the time on some of the client workstations is inaccurate. There is a problem with NTP on the clients or domain controllers causing the time to not synchronize. We are ...
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Can you display milliseconds in the time/date on the Windows 7 taskbar?
I need to time some things, thought it would be nice to do this...
Or maybe a better question: Can the date/time format in the Windows task bar be changed?
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How do I move only coming occurences of a series in Outlook?
I have created a series that occurs every week. Now I want to change the time of this series. When doing this Outlook changes the time also for past events. I do not want this. What can I do? I came ...
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Is there a program to accelerate/slowdown time in other process?
Is there a program/library that allows to override time flow in other processes?
Expecting it to override clock_gettime, gettimeofday, alarm and other functions that report time or use timeout using ...
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Converting a travel time to an Excel time
I have calculated the time it takes to travel from point A to point B. The results are in number of seconds. I have converted the number of seconds to Hours, Minutes, and Seconds in three cells. I ...
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CentOS system time, crond time
I have a question about time setting in CentOS. I have updated my system time with:
# yum install -y ntp
# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Shanghai /etc/localtime
# ntpdate us.pool.ntp.org
# date, Now ...
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Why is event-log time different from taskbar time?
Today is the first time in several months that I've opened up Administrative tools to view the event log.
Imagine my consternation when I saw events in the log with a time-stamp of 11/09/2012. The ...
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Archlinux boot time
I have Archlinux installed in my netbook. I want to reduce the boot time to less than 10 seconds. Is this possible? Do you have any success in reducing the boot time to a larger extent?
I am aware of ...
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How to change date-time format in Skype chat
Simple question, but I didn't find the answer by myself.. Now time is shown 11:14 PM, and I want to see 23:14. My OS is Windows 7.
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How to Get Standalone Windows 7 Cannot Sync Time (NTP)
I am trying to get my Windows 7 Professional Machine to sync time correctly. This laptop is not a member of any domain.
If I try to go to the clock settings, Internet Time tab, and click on "Update ...
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How to synchronize clocks for computers that are not online?
I have some computers that run Windows 7 embedded and are connected to each other by a switch, but are not connected to a larger network or the internet. After a few weeks, the clocks drift and it is ...
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How does network time protocol (ntpd) get the right time to my machine?
network time protocol (ntpd) sets the time on my system automatically from time servers on the net (or something like that. ;)
What I've always wondered was, how does that work? Everything that ...
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How to skew a Mac's clock 10 minutes while still keeping it “synchronized”?
My wife is always running late. How can I skew her Mac's clock 10 minutes while still keeping it "synchronized"?
I looked at the fudge setting of /etc/ntp.conf but it's only for a Reference Clock and ...
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Is my notebook battery charging even when the indicator has stopped flashing?
I just bought a new battery for my Fujitsu-Siemens PA-1510. The battery label claimed that, in order to have a long living battery it is important to charge it at least 10 hours before the first use.
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Is there Linux software that can read out times?
I have seen how Mac can tell (and say) time on hourly, half-an-hour, or quarterly basis. This is very convenient because you can hear the Mac telling you what time it is.
I am looking for something ...
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Can I copy the ntpdate binary from another machine in order to update date & time?
On my Red Hat 5.3 Linux machine, NTP isn’t installed (can't install it for some reasons). However I can copy the binary /usr/sbin/ntpdate from another Linux machine to mine.
If I only get the file ...
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Stopping ntp - time is still jumping back in Debian
I do something like:
service ntp stop
503 date +%T -s "15:10:00"
But after a while it jums forward to the correct time (If I put it forward in time, it seems to be working).
This is a VMWare Linux ...
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What is starting date for real time clock? [closed]
Windows uses January 1, 1601 as starting date.
What does Real time clock use?
If it uses different starting date, does Windows convert its timestamp(because it uses its date and time) into its own? ...
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XP MODE: the time on this PC and the current time on the network are different
Some folks were monkeying around with the Time service and Kerberos on our Windows 2003 network domain controllers last night, and today I cannot boot up XP Mode on my Windows 7 desktop. I've rebooted ...
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Why does exiftool make the current date and time shift?
When I try to shift the date and time using exiftool on both OS X and Windows I get the same outcome: the current date and time changed instead of adding 2m 18d 11hr 14m 0s.
exe file and command run ...
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Public, reputable sources of time sync via HTTP to use where NTP is blocked?
Let's say I'm in a corporate network where the NTP protocol is blocked, the BOFH^H^H^H^H sysadmins won't unblock it, and they didn't bother to set up a good internal NTP server. What's a good source ...
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Is there any file I can read in unix which contains the time
Is there any file in unix based system which I can read, to get the same value that time() in php would return?
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Time analysis of a movie
I am looking for a tool to analyse a video file on a time basis easily.
What I want to do is, while watching a movie I will hit a shortcut and time will be recorded (in a file or clipboard or ...
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How do I convert text into time data?
I have text in one column that has times formatted as "1230 pm" and need to convert it to time.
I managed to convert the "am" data but didn't get it to work with the "pm" data.
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Time problem in ArchLinux
I use ArchLinux and I have had problems with my system time for many months.
Previously it was working, but once I updated my PC, the system time was shifted at every startup (like it wasn't ...
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Time on WIndows 7 Incorrect - set by network
My computer is connected to a domain. The time is consistently wrong, in fact it seems to be going fast. I try setting the time correctly but within the hour it's changed back. I am pretty sure it ...
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How do I interpret the output of the “time” command?
time a.out
106.130u 0.000s 1:46.28 99.8% 0+0k 0+0io 83pf+0w
As per my understanding of the man page:
the first value is the time since the code execution started and ended,
the second values ...
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Ubuntu clock is wrong and I can't change it (running as VirtualBox Guest under OSX)
I have a strange problem with my Ubuntu Natty virtual machine running under VirtualBox on OSX.
One day last week, my clock on the top bar in Gnome stopped displaying the correct time (I'm not running ...
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Minute:Second to seconds in Excel
I'm trying to work out how many seconds there are in a given time range.
So for instance if I have the following times:
16:36:00 - 16:37:38
I need to the value of 98 seconds to be placed within a ...
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What's the puporse of the VirtualBox Services?
I have installed VirtualBox on Ubuntu 11.04 and see the following services in BUM (Boot-Up Manager)
Oracle VM VirtualBox (vboxweb-service)
VirtualBox linux kernel module (vboxdrv)
Oracle VM ...
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How to parse time expressions in shell?
I want to have a shell script with a parameter specifying some time. Is there already an existing way to transform time expressions ala: 1d, 34m, 3s, or 0.456h, or 23ms into lets say just ...
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Linux - Forcing 24-hour locale?
Is there any way to force 24-hour time in my locale (for example, 14:00) instead of 12-hour time (2:00 PM)?
I use the en_US locale with a UTF-8 character set on Arch Linux, but this shouldn't matter, ...
