rsync time comparison – what’s the precision of the Modified times comparison
rsync time comparison – what’s the precision of the Modified times comparison
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List files created on Sundays
In *nix operating systems there is no way to get the file creation date. mtime will give you last modification time and atime … Read more
How to force the time and date settings to refresh from the internet?
Setting time from the Internet is done via NTP. There are two methods: ntpdate makes one query to retrieve the current time from … Read more
What else apart from /etc/localtime and $TZ affects `date`?
why don’t you use zdump to see whats going on with that zoneinfo file. Maybe it has really been replaced as some have … Read more
How to compare two dates in bash script?
The best way to compare points of time (dates) is in seconds (since Epoch). Changing the %y to %Y for stat will give … Read more
Find files which are created a certain time after or before a particular file was created
Another complicated option: get test.txt‘s modification time (mtime) calculate “before delta” = now + hour – mtime (assuming mtime is in the past) … Read more
Solaris + display file time stamp [year][month][day]
A portable way to do it could be: perl -MPOSIX -le ‘print strftime “%Y%m%d”, localtime((lstat)[9]) for @ARGV’ /etc/hosts
Is there a reserved word for datetime for the start of the day?
Is there a reserved word for datetime for the start of the day?
Is there any way to view dates of changes to Windows registry keys/values?
Registry keys have a last-modified timestamp. You can use Regedit to export a key, selecting the “.txt” output format. That text file will … Read more
Bash-script. Shift seconds
Perl solution. I did not use any classical time handling module, as miliseconds handling is generally poorly supported. #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; … Read more
