Questions tagged [time]
`time` is a command line utility for running another program and summarizing resource usage
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Ubuntu machine time issue
New to ubuntu. I see that my machine has wrong time set in the system. Can some one help how to correct the system time.
timedatectl shows
Local time: Tue 2019-07-16 03:53:00 IST
Universal ...
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Bash: measure CPU time from launch until exit of an already running process
I'd like to use bash's builtin time command to measure the remaining cpu/user time used up by a program that is already executing.
More precisely, I would like to write a bash script that, given a ...
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environment variable on the line messes up time output
check this out
$ time echo 1
1
real 0m0.000s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
$ TESTVAR=TEST time echo 1
1
0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1932maxresident)k
0inputs+...
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Time measurement in the Linux kernel
I want to measure time intervals in my kernel. I know nanoseconds are not really precise but I need more precision than milliseconds.
There are many many functions to get a time. Jiffies, time of day,...
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automatically detect date format from string in linux?
I have a date 20190620_113859 which is from date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S
Is it possible to detect that +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S format from 20190620_113859 as input
like
$ date --detect-format '20190620_113859'
%Y%m%...
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Date command and the file containing system date
Seems simple, but couldn't find any answer:
Is it possible to edit a file for the purpose of updating the Linux date instead of using date +%y%m%d -s "DATE" command?
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Converting date's default output to Unix epoch
If I run date without any options, I'll get something like this as output:
Sun Mar 31 01:05:19 CDT 2019
Is there anyway to convert that to what I would have gotten if I had typed date +%s?
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Changing time format in Ubuntu
The time in my Ubuntu desktop is shown as "May 20 08:05". Could I change it as "May 20 08.05"? That is because I live in Finland and I would like to time to be shown as in Finland.
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time -f “%e[s]” sleep 3 prints -f: command not found
When I use time to measure elapsed time during command(s) execution with no options given, like this:
time sleep 3
It behave correctly, it prints:
real 0m3,002s
user 0m0,002s
sys 0m0,000s
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Is there a way to get time-stamping of the mirror you update the index from?
As far as a I know, apt only records when either you or it i.e. apt did an apt hook to update the apt database. Is there a way for e.g. to know the time-stamp of the mirror or a way to know when a ...
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Why does Linux add an hour to the time stamp of files from external device?
On various newish Linux installations (Mint 19.1, 18.1, Linux Mint Debian, Centos) I have a problem which doesn't show up on older installations (Mint 17.1, 17.3) or Windows.
The problem is that ...
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Sorting the CSV based on Unix timestamp
I have a large number of CSV files, each file having multiple numeric columns. The first column is Unix timestamp. How can I sort such file? Thank you.
An example row of the file as below:
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Manually set time overwritten without a time sync active (in a VM)
I'm trying to set a fake time on Ubuntu 18.04 (systemd 237) for purposes of testing an execution of a monthly periodic task.
This is running on a virtual machine (virtualbox with guest additions).
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Bash Shell takes variable amount of time to load
I use bash on Ubuntu 18.04. I have added a lot of functions and a lot of scripts are sourced in my bashrc. I am able to time the total time it takes to load my terminal, sometimes it takes 0.9 seconds ...
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Display output of `time` only if command after `time` was successful
I want the output of the time command to be shown only if the command, which has been passed to time was successful. Something like this:
( time wget -pq --delete-after https://www.example.com ) 2>...
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time not accepting arguments
I installed time but when I use it, I am getting the portable format, not the default format. When installed I think it said GNU time 1.7 or 1.72.
Commands like
time --help
time --version
fail with ...
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How often (and when) does NTPD update the time?
I have an Oracle Linux 6 box (RHEL) and I have set up ntpd. I have run service ntpd start and chkconfig on. Now, if my date is incorrect and I reboot the box, it sets the time and date properly. ...
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date: invalid date trying to set linux date in specific format
i try to set linux date & time in specific format but it keep giving me error
Example :
date "+%d-%m-%C%y %H:%M:%S" -d "19-01-2017 00:05:01"
or
date +"%d-%m-%C%y %H:%M:%S" -d "19-01-2017 00:05:...
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What do the ntp options “restrict default nopeer” do?
NTP version installed: ntp-4.2.6p5-5
I'm trying to understand the usage and meaning of the ntp restrict along with restrict default nopeer
Quoting the NTP documentation:
nopeer: Deny packets ...
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Get time of the last session in seconds
I'm getting the time of the last session of an specific user using the last command like below:
last -aiF -n 1 fakeuser
The output of this command is something like:
fakeuser pts/0 Tue Nov 27 11:...
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How can I sum the time based on usernames?
Basically, I want to see how much time every user spent logged in.
(username) pts/0 (IP adress) Tue Dec 12 17:51 - 18:14 (00:22) - this is how one line looks in the last command. The ...
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Manjaro OS shows wrong time
I am using Manjaro OS (Arch Linux based distro) on my HP Notebook 15 with Pentium IV processor.
I have tried changing timezones using "Orange Globaltime" built into the distro but despite being ...
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Uptime command misconception with suspend and resume states
The definition for uptime is "Tell how long the system has been running." but if you change your system power state to suspend or resume:
# uptime
09:50:33 up 8 min, 2 users, load average: 0,24, 0,...
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Linux: Set timezone offset that doesn't exist?
Is it possible on any Linux to force a timezone offset that is outside the "valid" range -12 to +14?
I'm looking for a way to temporarily simulate a "local time" (for testing purposes) that might be ...
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Offline time sync
Is there a reliable way to sync clock of a totally offline linux server, which is only occasionally connected to a client?
I imagine passing a single "millis-since-epoch" number to the server may not ...
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Display “time” of process periodically
A week ago, I launched simulations as follows:
make rebuild; time make run
Using the command time I recorded the CPU time used in each case.
A week later, the simulations finished but, much to my ...
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manually setting date in debian 8
When setting the date in Debian 8 it reverts to the current time after a few seconds. How to actually manually set date and time in Debian 8?
NTP is not running.
+ set -x
+ sudo timedatectl set-time ...
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Data getting overwritten with same timestamp in InfluxDB
There are some data in a csv file and it is getting overwritten if the timestamp is similar, for example:
ip,time,name
1.1.1.1,2018-08-31 11:12:32,python
1.2.1.2,2018-08-31 11:05:28,oracle
1.3.1.3,...
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Is there a way to restrict the application access to the system time in linux?
Is there a way to restrict the application access to the system time in linux?
I want to make the application launch as much as possible abstracted from the environment. If you can restrict access to ...
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Is it possible to measure the execution time with temporarily halt of the script with Ctrl + z?
I want to measure the execution time of my script, which I execute in the following way:
time python script.py -n 11
However, I also want to stop the execution of the script temporarily, especially ...
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interpreting the overall time in ping results [closed]
I have two different machines I am doing pings on.
The hosts setup of the machine (OS, installed software, etc.) are identical. The only difference is they are in two different networks.
These ...
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Calculate Difference In Time Over Several Days
I've seen many questions and examples showing how to calculate the difference in two times by converting the times to epoch, and then converting the difference in seconds... However, what is the best ...
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Updating Linux system time programmatically
I have a system of 3 or 4 different Linux Ubuntu machines that I would like to be time synced. My plan is to use one of them (let's call it master) as the NTP server that serves time to the 3 other ...
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Bash has performance trouble using argument lists?
Solved in bash 5.0
Background
For background (and understanding (and trying to avoid the downvotes this question seems to attract)) I'll explain the path which got me to this issue (well, the best I ...
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Linux system time temporally jumps
I saw a strange system time changing behavior in some (hardware) servers: in /var/logs/syslog, the date time preceding each log message sometimes change to a random one and gets back to normal in the ...
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Why is `time` not in the GNU Bash manual?
[fakename]$ help time
time: time [-p] pipeline
Report time consumed by pipeline's execution...
From this, it seems that time is a Bash builtin. However, I cannot find a description of it on this ...
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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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Is an optimal user-time to real-time ratio an indicator for efficient parallelization?
In some unix shells there is the time command which prints how much time a given command takes to be executed. The output looks like
real 1m0.000s
user 10m0.000s
sys 0m0....
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system-wide timezone question -red hat enterprise 7
For my user account I explicitly export the TZ variable to be america/chicago in my .bash_profile file, so when I type: date, I get the date in CST. However I have not set the TZ variable for any ...
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How to get execution millisecond time of a command in zsh?
The time only print the the execution second time of a command.
If there is a solution like IPython's powerful timeit magic command, great.
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Date changes to 11 Feb 2016 and 1 Jan 2014 when I set the date before it and restart
I want to set the date to "1990-??-??" on my PC, but when I reboot it, I see:
On Ubuntu 1604 the system date is "11 Feb 2016" but the RTC is "1990-??-??".
On Ubuntu 1404 both of them are "1 ...
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FreeNas share showing wrong modified time on MAC
I have a FreeNas server that we use as a network file share. Nothing fancy. Unfortunately, machines connecting to it report different times for file modification times.
SSHing in and running date ...
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How can we make `time` apply to a pipeline or its component? [duplicate]
time command1 | command2
Does time apply to command1 or command1 | command2? If your answer is one of the two, how would you specify the other?
Could you explain your answer based on the grammar ...
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Is each `time` in these examples a keyword or `/usr/bin/time`?
In the following examples, is each time a keyword or /usr/bin/time? Why, or how do you find it out?
can a keyword be a command?
Or does the keyword time apply to an empty command? (I might have ...
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How to schedule a C program to execute at a certain time then email output?
How would one go about scheduling a C program to execute at a certain time, then email the output to someone upon completion? I'm personally working in ubuntu, but even a general answer would be great ...
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Using nohup and time with different outputs
I want to run an executable main and redirect all outputs to /dev/null, meanwhile I measure its runtime with time and write the results to runtime.out. Since the task is long I also have to run the ...
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How to do parsing of Elapsed time in seconds in linux
I want to do parsing of Elapsed time in seconds .Time formats given below:
1) 3 day 18h
2) 3 day
3) 3h 15min
4) 3h
5) 15min 10sec
6) 15min
7) 10sec
i'm getting values from systemctl status ...
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how to verify difference time between linux machines not greater than 5 seconds
How may I verify that all machines, appolo01 - mars3, are less than 5 seconds offset from each other?
ssh appolo01 date ; ssh appolo02 date ; ssh appolo03 date ; ssh mars1 date ; ssh mars2 date ; ssh ...
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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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Statusbar Time Display [closed]
I am using i3 on Arch Linux. My statusbar is i3blocks, which works well, except for one problem. I am using the date command to get the system time. My problem with that is that I use my clock to ...
