NTP is a core protocol used today’s IT infrastructure to synchronize date and time information. In order to work properly, we need to configuration NTP port in our server, client and intermediate systems like switch, firewall, router. NTP Port UDP 123 NTP uses the UDP port number 123 by default. NTP services run on UDP protocol because of the UDP simplicity and performative behavior. NTP is also a very simple protocol...
Nettime is a simple time synchronization client for Windows 95/98/200/Vista/7/10 and Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016 . It is very lightweight and uses very tiny system resource. Features Here is some of main features and attributes of the Nettime application. Free where we do not need to pay any price to install and use Open Source where we can download the whole source code and make changes Small where it needs very...
Epoch time is used in Linux systems regularly to express given date and time. Epoch time may be very strange for Non-Linux users. But epoch time uses veyr simple logic to calculate date and time. Start Of Date and Time Epoch time uses reference point to calculate date and time. Reference point for epoch time is 01.01.1970 or the first day of the year 1970 . The reference time is...
Timestamp is used to hold the seconds from epoch. Epost is a generic term used to represent data January 1st, 1970 in UTC. So this means epoch and timestamp do not have any time zone or by default UTC time zone. In this tutorial we will look different examples about time module with time stamp examples. Import Time Module As related functions are provided by modules we need to import...
While developing applications we may need some rest for the execution. Python provides sleep() function for different use cases in order to delay program execution. In this tutorial we will examine Python sleep() function for different conditions. Sleep Time Precision Before starting tutorial we should know that Python is an interpreted language and is not real time. So while using python there will be some inconsistencies. While using sleep function Linux can use...
Date and time is important part of the applications development. We generally need to set, get and change some data time information to our records. In this tutorial we will examine the python date time now functions and use cases with examples. For more information about Python date time functions can be get from following tutorial. Python Date Time Functions With Examples Python Date Time Operations Import datetime In order...
Date time is important part of the application development. Date is used in different format to show, save, or compare events and process. Date and time have different presentation formats which may be change according to countries and localization settings. In this tutorial we will look different usage examples of datetime operations. Import Datetime Library Python datetime functions are provided by the library named datetime and in order to use date...
Time and date configuration is very important for servers. Some logs and security rules are tied with date and time information. In windows environments this information can be set with different tools and ways. Powershell, GUI or command line MS-DOS can be used to set time and date information. In this tutorial we will look tzutil which is a MS-DOS command line tool used to configure date time in Windows systems....
Windows have a lot of tools to manage the operating system and user related configuration. As windows mainly used through GUI accessing some tools needs a lot of navigation, search and click. We can create some shortcuts on the desktop but this is not efficient if we are system admin and use a lot of different computers. In this tutorial we will look some most used management tools command shortcuts....
Linux uptime command is a simple command used to display how many times ago the computer or server restarted. Uptime command provides following information too; Current Time How lon the system has been running How may users currently logged in System avarage load in last 1, 5, 15 minutes Show Uptime We can show uptime like below.
1 | $ uptime |
This command will list total number of time of uptime in days...
