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Uses of time in computers (name 3) - ANSWER ✔✔- Time stamping
files
- Expiration on tickets
- Calendaring
- Logging
- Tracing
- Troubleshooting
,What is the Julian Calendar? - ANSWER ✔✔- Created by Julius
Caesar in 46 BC
- 365 days in year
- Error in leap year calculation
What is the Gregorian Calendar? - ANSWER ✔✔- Decreed by Pope
Gregory XIII on Feb 24, 1582
- Still had 365 days in a year
- Fixed leap year calculation
What happened in September of 1752? - ANSWER ✔✔- Great Britain
and colonies changed from Julian to Gregorian calendar
- in order to adjust for leap year calculation, skipped last 11 days of the
month (making it a 19 day month)
How is time represented in UNIX systems? Windows? - ANSWER
✔✔UNIX: system clock is UTC, 13:00 -5 DST, keeps time based on
seconds since UNIX Epoch, 00:00:00 January 1, 1970 (overflows
January 19, 2038 if not fixed)
Windows: system clock is local time zone, 9:00 AM -5 +1
, What are the two types of computer clocks? Differences? - ANSWER
✔✔Real Time Clock - keeps time in BIOS
System time - kept by process running in OS, depends on constant
processor clock speeds
How is time synchronized in Windows non-domain systems? Domain-
based systems? - ANSWER ✔✔Non-domain: no built in
synchronization, default is to sync to time.windows.com via SNTP
Domain: Primary Domain Controller is time server, all domain members
synchronize to PDC
What is SNTP? - ANSWER ✔✔Simple Network Time Protocol
How many transactions can SNTP complete? What does this mean? -
ANSWER ✔✔- Single transactions
- Sets time once
- can be done repeatedly on a schedule - time can be off between syncs
What is NTP? - ANSWER ✔✔Network Time Protocol
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