Questions tagged [clock]
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system clock is wrong when I boot in to any one of the OS in my dual boot ubuntu-windows setup
I have a dual booted laptop with windows and ubuntu installed side by side. whenever I boot in to any one these operating systems, the system clock shows the time I booted in the said OS last time. ...
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Since which version does linux support system clock with nano precision?
We are using centos7 and with the date command we came to know that system clock support nano precision.
date +"%s %9N"
1537941601 130559008
So, we were to know that from which version did linux ...
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How do I permanently sync the system clock with the hardware clock?
I have a cronjob running that checks for server updates, installs them one by one, and then checks if a reboot is needed. If a reboot is needed, the script will reboot the server.
The hardware clock ...
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Time measurment in Linux kernel: how are clock_gettime, gettimeofday and getrusage related?
I am trying to understand how time is measured by the Linux kernel. I tried to go through the kernel code, but I miss the big picture to understand the code that I'm reading, even if this article ...
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What is /etc/timezone used for?
On my Manjaro linux box, I have a file /etc/timezone which contains:
Asia/Bangkok
Another Manjaro forum user also has the same file. That thread on the whole contains some prior art on this question....
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Trigger some action on system clock change?
I would like to have something occur - say, I would like to run a certain script - whenever the system clock is adjusted (hardware clock and/or offset from hardware clock, including the timezone). ...
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What are the possible cause of “__rtc_set_alarm: err=-22” error message in dmesg?
What are the possible cause of "__rtc_set_alarm: err=-22" error message in dmesg? I am seeing this in my log files but I do not try to set the alarm or schedule it anywhere.
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Laptop clock time advanced when booting to Linux [duplicate]
Everytime I log into Linux mint, the laptop internal clock advances an hour. When i log out and back into Windows the time stays advanced and I have to manually change the time back one hour. Anyone ...
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clock_gettime call not using vDSO?
I already asked a question on a similar topic (vDSO file path in Android x86 kernel) but I encountered another problem.
I am working on a school research on Dirty CoW vulnerability. I found out ...
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Hardware and system clock gets offset by roughly 7 minutes on each boot although locale and time zone are correct
On each boot into Arch, I see that the time is off by a few minutes. The RTC time is off (as far as I understood, it has "drifted".) and affects the hardware clock.
$ timedatectl status
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Change default sounds of gnome-clocks app
I'm use gnome-clocks for its timer option. This app is very simple and effective. But I can't change the default sounds of the alarm and the timer. I tried setting the configurations in dconf and ...
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How do you hardcode the format of sudo hwclock
Hey there so I just received a new RTC for my Raspberry Pi.
When I run this command:
sudo hwclock
The output looks like the following:
2018-01-08 13:06:5.441956+0100
But, on my other Raspberry Pi ...
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Why /proc/diskstats overlap UINT_MAX?
In function diskstats_show, kernel outputs io_ticks by
jiffies_to_msecs(part_stat_read(hd, io_ticks)),
However I noticed this value overlaps UINT_MAX and starts again from 0 every several weeks, on ...
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Lubuntu 17.10 login screen has a white font clock
I noticed that my Lubuntu's clock in login screen has a white font clock. I do not know why but no matter what I do it won't change. I tried resetting the panel and configuration files of LXDE, but ...
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Why is the number of ticks inaccurate?
I checked the numbers in proc/stat to the the number of clock ticks the CPU has had and I saw that the sum of the numbers in CPU1-4 is not equal to the numbers written in front of CPU as a whole. Why ...
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RTC management in desktop and embedded environments
When working on an embedded environment (current one: Raspberry Pi with Debian Stretch) with an external RTC module (i.e. DS1307) I have to manually keep in sync both system and RTC clock.
This can ...
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Clock instability in Debian 9 (stretch)
I have a machine running Debian 8 (jessie) downgraded to kernel 3.2-rt. This is running an application which is set to realtime priority (SCHED_RR), wakes up every 1ms to do some processing, and ...
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Manually setting date time in Lubuntu does not update the hardware clock
Lubuntu is not changing the bios date-time when I set the date-time manually using the Time and Date Application. Due to which, when I reboot it synchronises the time with the wrong time in bios.
I ...
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Check for clock skews on machines where I can only submit jobs
I need to check for a clock skew in many remote machines. What is the best way to check for a clock skew on a Linux machine?
I don't need to sync clocks, just to check how accurate it is. I don't ...
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Invalid time on FreeBSD
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My FreeBSD is always 2 hours behind when I'm offline although my BIOS clock shows the UTC time and my time zone is set to CET in /etc/localtime.
I'd like FreeBSD to look at the clock in BIOS,...
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No such schema 'org.gnome.shell.clock' error
The command that I am trying to run is:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.clock show-date true
but then I get the message saying No such schema 'org.gnome.shell.clock' error
I don't know why this is? I ...
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How to change date/time format Linux gnome? [duplicate]
I have installed Gnome on my Linux 18 mint and I see the time at the top says:
Basically it says Sun May 7, 00:26, and I would like for it to say May 7, 2017 | 12:26 AM. I remember being able to ...
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11 minute mode when more than 30 minutes out of sync
In ntpd the kernel copies the system time to the hardware clock every 11 minutes.
However, if the system time and hardware clock are more than 30 minutes out of sync this copy does not happen and the ...
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Is there any way to adjust the clock granularity under tmux?
It seems like, by default, the tmux status bar clock granularity is set to 2s, however it would be nice to be able to bring that up to a one-second granularity.
Is there any way to set the ...
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Why 'hwclock' command applies a positive offset for local time, while the 'date' command applies a negative offset?
I am having some problems working with timezones. Can someone please explain these results to me? Why does the hwclock command apply a positive offset for local time, while the date command applies a ...
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Slowdown the system clock in Linux server
I have Centos server, in which I don't want to jump back the time to one hour during time change. instead I want to slow down the system clock few hour before the time change so that when the time ...
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How to revert date?
I changed the system date using the following command in Ubuntu:
date -s="1999/01/01 12:34:56"
Now, I want to revert the date call so the date is correct again. What should I do?
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Digital clock in Lubuntu 16.04 shows one hour more under CET ZT
The digital clock is synchronized with internet servers, set to Europe/Madrid ZT (i.e. CET), but shows one hour more, at the time of posting this question it is 20:31. I've tried to remove and add it ...
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'Function not implemented' nouveau clocking
I have a NVidia GTX 580 running under nouveau. It is currently running at 03 (the lowest state). However, when I try to change the clock rate to any setting, including the original state 03, it fails.
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Linux Mint clock is sometimes wrong, sometimes fine
I'm running linux mint on an asus laptop.
Throughout multiple installs of linux (always mint, but different environments), the clock is always wrong sometimes.
It's not off by an even multiple of an ...
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How to enable the clock after removing it from the taskbar in XFCE?
My clock was off so I decided to remove it, change the settings, and put it back in the right-hand corner on the taskbar, but I can't seem to be able to do that after removing it. I searched in the ...
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hwclock for non root user
How to make a non root user to view the hardware time other than hwclock command in centos 7
My requirement is to make a non root user to view the time alone
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How to change the Gnome panel time format?
Gnome panel displays the time with 24hrs format but I want to change it to am/pm.
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xclock with nanosecond (or fractional second) resolution
I currently run:
xclock -digital -update 1 -strftime '%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S'
and am reasonably happy with the resulting xclock, but don't find it quite annoying enough.
Is there any way I can add ...
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Is it possible to change the clocking for an audio codec from Linux (userland or driver)?
I have an i.MX6 evaluation board with an audio codec from Cirrus Logic (WM8958). The board also supports PTP hardware clocking. Is it somehow possible to change the reference frequency for the audio ...
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Display all declared clocks and their frequency
I would like to know how to display all clocks and their associated driver in Linux. It is possible to do it by looking at the device tree file but I was wondering if there is a sysfs entry that ...
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How do I actually make use of the kvm-clock clock driver?
According to copious sources, the KVM clock driver is loaded as shown here:
cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
These sources all seem to think that this ...
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Why don't Linux utils use a system call to get the current time?
I'm really trying to understand why our guest VMs aren't using the kvm-clock driver "like they're supposed to". They're running RHEL 7.2, glibc-2.17, kern 3.10.0. Programs such as date and perl -e '...
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Linux set hardware clock in UTC and system time in local time
Due to some reasons, I have to remotely set hardware clock time in UTC and system time in local time. My OS is OpenSUSE 13.1 and my tool is only the hwclock command. What I do so far:
1. Synchronize ...
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RedHat + what is the variable ARC in the /etc/sysconfig/clock file
from redhat doc we can see the following:
The /etc/sysconfig/clock file controls the interpretation of values read from the system hardware clock.
ARC=, where is the following:
false or no — This ...
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red hat Linux + UTC properties and hw clock
from redhat documentation
The /etc/sysconfig/clock file controls the interpretation of values read from the system hardware clock.
UTC= where is one of the following boolean values:
true or yes — ...
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how does the gnu coreutils `date` work? [closed]
I did not see any similar questions on this site. The manpage, while helpful in describing how to use date, did not have much background info. Even the info page (as prescribed in the manpage: info '(...
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rtcwake not working on Ubuntu 14.04 installed on MacBook Air (mid 2012)
I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 GNU/Linux on a MacBook Air (mid 2012).
I'm trying to use rtcwake to implement a "delayed hibernation from suspend", as in https://askubuntu.com/a/33192 (the particular ...
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Is clock_getres the proper function for obtaining the resolution for Ubuntu 16.04 clock_gettime()?
Is clock_getres the proper function for obtaining the resolution for Ubuntu 16.04 clock_gettime()?
If it is , how do I use the result to do this calculation?
64 bit integer has 15 base 10 digits of ...
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PC with short-lived RTC battery - how to immediately time-sync on boot and avoid time jumps
I've got a 64-bit Intel PC running Debian 8 with a capacitor-based clock, which means after 3 days without power the time is lost from the hardware clock. To help work-around this, I was thinking we ...
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Switch off 11-minute kernel mode
If ntpd works, then the kernel copies system time to hardware clock every 11 minutes. It is shown by command
adjtimex --print
I want to stop the kernel eleven mode. If I run
hwclock --hctosys
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UNIX Seconds, TAI (SI) Seconds, Leap Seconds, and Real-World Code
I've read a lot about UNIX Time lately, most of it incoherent, much of it contradictory. I am trying to reconcile conversions between UNIX Time (hereafter, for simplicity, UXT), TAI, and UTC, and to ...
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RedHat:how to make system read /etc/sysconfig/clock settings without restarting system
In legacy red hat enterprise linux system which do not provide hwclock, I am changing UTC value in /etc/sysconfig/clock and when I check in /etc/adjtime this value is not reflected with expected value....
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Does crond handles summer time +1 hour change?
Last weekend we had to change the time from 02:00 to 03:00.
Question: What would happen if there was a cronjob at 02:30?
crond is a very old solution for scheduling, it should probably handle it, ...
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Linux Voyager Desktop clock bug
Hello everyone , as you can see I have a problem with the desktop clock , I tried switching main language and it didn't work . I couldn't find any other forums with the same problem either . I am not ...
