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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 April 9th, 2008

Written by cliff

Tags
esx. esx server, firewall esxcfg-firewall, iptables, nptdate, ntp, ntpClient, ntpd, outbound UDP, port 123, time, time servr, udp, vmware

VMware ESX 3.5 ntpdate strangeness

We just noticed that the time was very far off on our sparkly new VMware EXS 3.5 server. When I went to run ntpdate to bring it up to sync, I was suprised to find that it could not make a connection to the time server because outbound UDP 123 traffic was blocked by the [...]