Questions tagged [time]
Time is an element of the overall measurement system of for space. Time can refer to the time it is now, according to timing devices, the interval between two events, the duration of an event, or the sequence of events.
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NTP Time - Get time of remote NTP server in command line
Essentially, I want to get an accurate time from a public NTP server, in DOS or powershell.
I know there's the w32tm which can query a remote ntp server, but the result it gives is how much out my ...
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How to set Debian to automatically update time and date?
I have an old computer and BIOS counts the time slower than real ;)
So, how can I set my OS to update the time automatically using the internet?
If it updated the time only during booting, it would ...
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NTP sync fails but NTP servers are reachable on Windows 10
I can't get my clock to sync in Windows 10.
When asking for a sync in either the control panel, or by doing w32tm /resync my computer sends some NTPv3 packets to pool.ntp.org (I manually set that ...
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systemd-timesyncd: fails on boot due to ordering cycle (dbus, sysinit)
i've been having a hard time with a pretty basic Rocky Linux 9 setup where my
systemd-timesyncd unit consistently fails on boot.
here are the logs
Feb 12 18:22:17 bigpu systemd[1]: sysinit.target: ...
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Ubuntu clock jumps but time is kind of correct
My Ubuntu server
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
Linux lab01 6.5.0-26-generic #26~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP ...
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Windows 10 synchronized with hardware clock (on system wakeup)
I have noticed that synchronization occurs on every wake up. What is the system time? I guess, it is updated continously but why do I see the event message only on the wake up?
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w32tm do not sync with configured Ntp server (source is clock)
On an Windows 10 workstation configured to connect to a local time server(the peerlist contains only one NTP server present in the local network). But when inspecting the configuration with "...
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Add custom time to video frames using ffmpeg
I am using ffmpeg to encode raw pixels data (bgr32) into a video file.
Pixels data is being sent from java application to ffmpeg stdin pipe.
I am looking for a way to add a timestamp overlay to each ...
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My Windows time changes to the future and causes problems. How can I fix this?
My Windows time changes to the future (this last time somewhere in 2042).
My system is: X570S Aorus Master @Bios Gigabyte 4.21.1027.1
My OS is: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.3155] (c) ...
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Windows is displaying the correct time, but lot's of websites say I'm an hour ahead
My computer is displaying the correct time, but when looking at time.is, or other websites that require your computer time to be correct, I get this message.
Your clock is 1 hour and 6.9 seconds ...
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How to setup the windows "window time" service so the service will always synchronize the time after startup? [duplicate]
Currently on windows 10 the startup type is "automatic (trigger start)" for "windows time", but every time I start in windows the time is in UTC and not the local time. So every ...
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Adding date and time to excel document quickly
I am making a log and need to keep track of multiple items parsing through different stages. For further statistical analysis I need to have date and time added to each stage for the particular item. ...
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Count number of instances that occur in a range across a month
I am looking to try and work out how many times across a month a message was posted between specific times, but not a specific date. Messages can be sent at any time, and I need to calculate how many ...
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LibreOffice Calc: how to convert minutes into decimal hours
I have the value 0:15:00 h:mm:ss - I'd like to get the value 0,25 hours - how can this be done? I tried simply dividing 0:15:00 by 60 but that didn't return what's expected.
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Can't connect to any ntp server from windows
I have three windows computers that I'm trying to sync to an NTP server. All of them fail to do so. I have confirmed that the NTP server runs fine by connecting from WSL.
Here's what I've tried:
I ...
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Formula to identify where there is a value for '0' and '1' per date in Excel pivot table
I am analysing camera trap data looking at nocturnal denning sites. I have formatted my data so that I have a '0' value and an '1' per date when there is an animal entering and leaving a den site on ...
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timedatectl set-local-rtc --adjust-system-clock don't change the 3rd line of /etc/adjtime
man page says about set-local-rtc:
This command will change the 3rd line of /etc/adjtime.
The 3rd line changed when timedatectl set-local-rtc <true/flase>.
The 3rd line not changed when ...
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Windows 7 - display date using small icons
I recently upgraded to Windows 7 and need the date displayed with the time. This works, but only if I use large icons in the taskbar settings which is quite ugly.
How do I display the time and date ...
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How to change time source from "Local CMOS Clock" to "0.pool.ntp.org"
I have a Windows8 Pro computer that is synchronizing ONLY with the local cmos clock.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>w32tm /query /source
Local CMOS Clock
I need to synchronize to 0.pool.ntp.org but is ...
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when does windows 10 check to automatically set the time? [duplicate]
I have the same issue as described in this question. I have a dual boot with windows 10 and ubuntu and every time I start up windows after having used ubuntu, the displayed time is wrong. This is ...
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System time synchronized with the hardware clock
From the last 2 months, we are facing below issue on our Windows 2016 server every 10 days.
Server time is going back by 1 hour with the below message in eventvwr.
The system time has changed to 2023...
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Notepad++ finding the opened time of already opened tabs [closed]
I've come across a slew of threads about adding the date or auto-inserting the date.
But how can I get the opened time of a tab that has already been opened?
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Time randomly changing itself, internet randomly dying
I installed Windows 8 RTM a few weeks ago. It's not my first time installing it, but it's the first time having these annoying problems:
Randomly, the system clock changes time all by itself - to fix ...
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Measure the Max Memory of a running process in gcc-bookworm Docker image?
I found many resources to use valgrind or /usr/bin/time. However, I need to perform this task in the container of the official Docker image for GCC: https://hub.docker.com/_/gcc
This image is based on ...
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Windows 10 unable to time sync, time service is greyed out
I am using a Windows 10 machine which is unable to sync time automatically.
Clicking on "Sync now" on the Date & Time Settings produces an error "Time synchronization failed". ...
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Systemd timer OnCalendar based on instance name with calculation
I have a systemd timer that is templated. The instance names are all just integers ([email protected] etc).
Is it possible, in the OnCalendar directive, to have the calendar expression perform basic ...
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Windows 10 force user logoff
Is there a program in Windows 10 or other Windows that can manage the user's logon hours (force logoff after specific time)? I know that Windows 10 and below has it built in, but the problem is that I ...
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If you optimize your PC should you expect faster website load times?
Let's say that you recently ran one of those PC optimizer programs. I think it's fair to expect faster boot times, and faster application load times. But, is it fair to think that your websites should ...
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How to get video duration in seconds?
How can I get video duration in seconds?
What I've tried:
ffmpeg -i file.flv 2>&1 | grep "Duration"
Duration: 00:39:43.08, start: 0.040000, bitrate: 386 kb/s
mediainfo file.flv | grep ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Time Stops
I have a recently re-imaged tower server running Windows Server 2008 R2 that is "freezing" time.
After booting up the server, everything is working fine. I click on the time in the task bar ...
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VLC Time v3.2 How can I display Frames instead of ms?
I took a look at Time v3.2 and it is really nice. What I would like to have is a different output of the "Timecode". It should be hh:mm:ss:ff as in the EBU Timecodeformat
How can I change ...
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Why does echo $(TZ=GMT+17 date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) show me yesterday?
When I run this command today, November 8, 2023 at 1100 GMT, the output is: 20231107180000:
echo $(TZ=GMT+17 date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)
I would have thought that, if anything, GMT+17 would ADD 17 hours to ...
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Windows App Keeps changing time randomly
I faced a time problem this week, i have a Network camera app that runs based on multiple servers. the servers storage is where the camera recordings go.
Now everything was fine since the first ...
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Convert duration in XXm, YYs format to time value
In Microsot Excel, I have string data that represents duration of an event:
duration
40s
5m, 40s
59m, 59s
I need to convert the values to time (in adjacent column) so that I can format and sort ...
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What's the quickest way to copy the current date and time to clipboard?
I want to paste the current date and time to a spreadsheet and I am using the NOW() function and copy from there and paste as string but there might be a faster way. There might be an excel solution ...
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How to divide time by a constant in Excel?
I have an Excel sheet in which I have a column where each cell holds the amount of overtime accumulated since the first row. The format of this cell is [h]:mm.
In the column next to it, I want to ...
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Why does Excel's now() function returns different times depending on device/browser used?
I am using the current time to run 'live' calculations in Excel using =NOW(). The Excel file is saved in my OneDrive. When I embed my Excel worksheet on a web page sometimes it displays the local (...
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Ignore blank/0 values in AVERAGEIF with two ranges
Trying to calculate average waiting time but, need to ignore blank or 0 value cells.
For example, here i'm calculating time difference between H column and G column and getting the average. However, ...
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Is there any command like time, but for memory usage?
Is there any command like time, but that reports more statistics? It would be great if I could do something like:
$ statistics some_command
time:
real 0m3.002s
user 0m0.000s
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Dual boot - Linux/Windows time mismatch with both using UTC
I'm dual-booting a fully updated Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04. Every time I shut down the system from Linux and then boot into Windows, I see the time on Windows is about 3 hours too late; manually ...
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Should I set my BIOS to local time or UTC?
I'm about to install a new system and just noticed that the BIOS time is set to UTC time. Should I set it to local time? What consequences does it have to leave it as is, or set it to local time?
The ...
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How to find out total running time of system and hard disk?
I have a sony laptop with windows 7. I bought it four years ago and i have used it with vista, ubuntu and leopard also.
How to find out the total on time of the system since i bought it?
Any way to ...
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Excel, populate time when another cell has data
Somebody else asked if there was a way to automatically populate the current date in a cell based on another cell receiving data.
[NOT those exact words, but same thing, I think]
And Somebody showed ...
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What's the purpose 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 VirtualBox ...
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chrony sync too slow how to immediately sync time
And I'm using debian 11 with chrony for server-cluster time sync.
The question is:
How to immediately sync the clock?
I even tried to use this total crazy config
makestep 3600 -1
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Windows w32tm not answering NTP requests
I'm trying to setup an NTP server on my Windows machine. I'll give you a quick overview of the architecture I'm aiming for:
The setup is as follows: on the Windows computer there are two network ...
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How to convert time to seconds
I have csv file with cells that have values like 0:20.555 and 12:05.001. The format is mm:ss.sss where mm is minutes,ss.sss is seconds with thousandths of seconds. It is a duration, not time of day. A ...
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Windows port of /usr/bin/time?
Is there a clean Windows port / version of the /usr/bin/time command in Linux (program to time the execution of a process)?
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Seconds in taskbar gone after update KB5027231
A few months back, Windows 11 got an update that allowed you to show seconds in the taskbar clock like you could in Windows 10 and previous versions.
It worked fine for a while, but when the ...
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Windows Media Player - always show Current Time/Total Time
I'm using Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7. When I open a video file then it by default only shows the current position (time). If I click on it once then it changes to format Current Time / Total ...
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