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Data and Technology

Posted on January 27th, 2009

Written by cliff

Tags
1234567890, date, epoch, time, unix, UNIX time, UTC

Happy 1234567890′th Second UNIX!

Today, Friday February 13, at 3:31 PM (PST), the UNIX time will read exactly 1234567890. So exacly what is all this excitement about UNIX being able to count to 10? Surely, the operating system that is slowly but steadily putting Microsoft out of business must be able to do that. Well, it’s actually the UNIX [...]
Data and Technology

Posted on December 19th, 2006

Written by cliff

Tags
atomic clock, chkconfig, clock, date, internet time server, linux, ntpd, ntpdate, red hat, rhel, sysadmin, system clock, systems administration, time of day, time server, unix, xntpd

Getting ntpd to work correctly on RHEL

When many new servers are delivered from the factory, the system clock is way off. Most UNIX systems run “ntpd” to keep the time in sync with internet time servers, which are, in turn synchronized against an atomic clock. This results in a system time that is very very close to the “actual” time of [...]