Signs Of The Times
or how did i make time go backwards and never looked back

Table of contents

• Time - The Final Frontier
• Lets Get Into The Zone
  • Zone Language - Rules
  • Zone Language - Zones
  • Zone Language - Other Types Of Lines
  • Compiling A Zone File
• The Flow Of time()
  • Handing Time Across Time Zones
• Keeping Machines Synced In Time
  • Manual Setting - The 'date' Command
  • The Time Service
  • Semi-Automatic Time Setting
  • Automating The Semi-Automatic 'rdate'
  • The "one-true-way" to synchronize time - NTP
• Sub-Second Sleeps
  • First Attempt - 'usleep()' or 'nanosleep()'
  • Measuring Busy-Wait
• The Twisted 'select()' Call
  • Timers Using A Delta-List
  • Time Drifts With Delta Lists
  • The Often-Forgotten EINTR
  • A Stable Implementation Of A Reccuring Timer
• Timing And Profiling
  • Timing
  • Profiling Using gprof and kprof
• References

Originally written by guy keren

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