The "time" command in Linux is a process timer and does not display the system time. Though counterintuitive, the Linux "date" command displays the time, as well as the date, on a Linux box. You can ...

Linux marks time in the number of seconds since the start of the Linux epoch. Here's a script for using that information to figure how many days separate two dates expressed in traditional calendar ...

The new year rolled in at 1262304000, Unix time that is. It’s a little hard to imagine that Unix is now more than 1.2 billion seconds old. Seems only yesterday that I was trying my first pipes and ...

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, officially incorporated ' PREEMPT_RT ', known as Real Time Linux, into the Linux kernel on September 20, 2024. Merge tag 'sched ...

Some time ago, Linus Torvalds made a throwaway comment that sent ripples through the Linux world. Was it perhaps time to abandon support for the now-ancient Intel 486? Developers had already abandoned ...

In the January/February 2002 issue of Embedded Linux Journal, we examined the fundamental issues of real time with Linux. In this article we examine efforts to bring real-time capabilities to ...