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Executing a program according to the last modified date

I need to write a script which would execute some executables in a directory according to the last modified date. The oldest should run first. How do I do it? This is what I have done so far for f ...
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Correct use of TZ, date, and hwclock?

I'm working on an Buildroot developed ARM/ulibc Linux distribution for a custom board. I'm trying to understand the relationship between If I do this, as I've seen on a few examples online: # date ...
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I messed up my system clock in Arch Linux

I installed Arch a couple of days ago. Just realized the date/time were off by a day and one hour. I changed it using timedatectl set-time. Then used hwclock --systohc to set the hardware clock. ...
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show the year while listing files in the current directory

I am working on a red hat server I want to list the files in a way where the year when each was file created would appear in the Date how is that possible ?
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linux + add 10 days to date and get new virtual date

I have Linux ( RH 5.3) machine I need to add/calculate 10 days plus date so then I will get new date (expiration date)) for example # date Sun Sep 11 07:59:16 IST 2012 So I need to get ...
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Is the system time correct when no date has been set?

If I was looking through a debian log file and I come across Jan 1st 1970 08:21:34 in a log, did the action happen at 08:21:34, just the correct date had not been set? Or if no date had been set is ...
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What is a distro-agnostic way determine the OS install date?

I am on a CrunchBang machine and trying to write a script that needs to have the OS install date as a reference. I searched and found this command: ls -lct /etc | tail -1 | awk '{print $6, $7, $8}' ...