Telling the Time on Linux: It’s Harder Than It Looks

Written By
CS
Carla Schroder
Feb 29, 2012

[ Thanks to Lee
Schlesinger
for this link. ]

“Does anyone really know what time it is? Getting the correct
time on computers running Linux is more complicated than you might
think, and formatting it can be even more challenging.

“You might think that entering the time command would tell you
the time…”


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CS

Carla Schroder

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