Questions tagged [timestamps]
timestamp is used for questions that are about data specifying seconds since the epoch (19700101T00:00:00) or possible some other standard, and also for (date) and time information in filenames.
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Set timestamp from exif for png files
Basically I am looking for the PNG-equivalent of jhead -ft *.jpg (which sets the timestamp of the file based on the exif time for JPG files). So I have png files and want to set their timestamp to the ...
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Why does stat show different timezones corresponding to different files?
I always thought that the timezone is not stored by the filesystem, and that stat would show times formatted with the current timezone of the user, and therefore if I do stat on various files today ...
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How to programmatically deduplicate files into hard links while maintaining the time stamps of the containing directories?
Continuing https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/22822, how to deduplicate files, given as a list, into hardlinks, while maintaining the timestamps of their directories? Unfortunately, hardlinks changes ...
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Changed behavior of sleep command in Linux suspend and resume testing
I am working on an embedded Linux system (kernel-5.10.220). Now I am testing the suspend and resume in this system with a watchdog time as the wakeup source to wake system up from suspend. The ...
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File has been changed, but its "date modified" is the same. How is that possible?
Here is a test file test.applescript: display dialog "foo" buttons {"OK"} cancel button 1 default button 1 At 4:05 PM I compiled it to test.app: osacompile -o test.app test....
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GNU `make`, modification times, leap seconds and NTP
GNU make relies on timestamps to see if a dependency was changed after some file was built. If you make a change during the leap second or an NTP adjustment, is it possible that make will believe the ...
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How to show seconds of last modified date when using sftp command?
When I use WinSCP to access my SFTP server, it shows me the last modified (changed) date including seconds. If I use sftp on Linux and run ls -l, it only shows the hours and minutes, but no seconds. ...
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Is there a way to use linux "find" and filter if specific process was the only one accessed it? [duplicate]
I am trying to find out a way to do incremental antivirus scan. My current approach under evaluation is using "find". You can see relevant question here: Is there a reason why I can't ...
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Is there a reason why I can't use find to scan modified files for viruses and malware?
I need to scan Linux systems for viruses/malware, on the entire file system. There are few options to consider. One is normally what users do: Use antivirus to scan system once a day. The second ...
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ISO 8601 intervals in date arithmetic with date command
I can make some date arithmetic with date command like $ date -u -d '3 days 2024-12-01T00:00:00Z' +%FT%H:%M:%SZ 2024-12-04T00:00:00Z $ The date command can parse quite a lot of date formats, ...
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Timestamp to each line of output (after finish command, how make view, when i input next command?)
In Terminal, i have see, when finish command, i view, when i input next command I use this solution https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/622928/675422 exec &> >( ts '%Y-%m-%d %H%M.%.S ' ) # ...
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Copy timestamp and metadata from one file to another
I rotated an MP4-video and in this process lost the correct metadata and timestamp of the file. Is there a way to copy the metadata and timestamp from the original (not roated) file to the new file. (...
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How to set keyboard shortcut to insert a timestamp (time & date) in KWrite?
KWrite is included as the default text editor in several popular Linux distros (such as Fedora KDE). Inserting a timestamp is a basic feature of text editors. How can one set a keyboard shortcut to ...
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Convert Date Format %Y%m%d%H%M%S to unix epoch format
I am trying all the methods but I get this error: I want to convert this format to epoch --> date "+%Y%m%d%H%M%S" example --> 20240913235959 I also tried other formats such as: date &...
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Dmesg showing incidents in the future
While debugging Wifi issues I came across this anomaly: $ sudo dmesg -e [Jul 1 14:28] wlxd85d4c93a47f: deauthenticating from 1c:57:3e:96:c3:a3 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING) [ +1.457910] ...
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