Even if you are living in a big city like me, you sometimes need to know the times the sun or moon rises and sets. Maybe you want to photograph the sun or moon at a specific time, go fishing or believe in something that requires you to know the exact times. Or, you simply [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Setting your computer time in Ubuntu
You computer’s clock does more than just tell you the time. This clock also stamps your email with the correct time as well as documents and much more. So when your PC clock is off, your life is off (at least while you are working). So it is necessary to keep your machine time accurate. [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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New Zealand iPhones hit by daylight saving bug
It has been reported that iPhones in New Zealand running the iOS 4.1 software have been hit by a bug as the country changes daylight saving time. The error caused the times on phones to revert back two hours instead of just one. This resulted in one disgruntled iPhone user being awoken at 3am instead of [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Look Up Local Time, Date And Weather Of Any Place In The World
Looking up information like the local time, local date or local weather can be helpful in certain circumstances. Maybe you are planning a trip to another location and want to make sure to be prepared, maybe you do not want to miss the important video conference with that other company from China (or another country) [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Comments: 4
Installing and Configuring NTP on Linux
NTP is the Network Time Protocol. This protocol allows servers (or desktops) to communicate to very reliable sources to keep their time synchronized. There are two reasons why you would want to employ NTP: 1) You’re a geek and you want your time to be perfect. 2) You need your servers all synchronized with the [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
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Web Development: A brief history of time()
Part of the beauty of PHP to me is the number of really useful variables that are built in. Some of these might seem very odd at first, but once you start creating pages you will run into some problems which you’ll find can be solved by a function which seemed totally useless when you [...]