Most Hackaday readers will be familiar with the idea of a network time server; a magical box nestled away in some distant data center that runs the Network Time Protocol (NTP) and allows us to ...

If your company's computer clocks aren't in sync, forensics, backups, and much more can suffer. Simson Garfinkel on getting the time right. Is the clock on every computer system in your organization ...

While computers manage many things with extreme precision, they have surprising difficulty keeping track of time. It’s pretty much impossible for a computer to keep exact time, although accuracy can ...

When designing a Data Warehouse we usually create a dedicated Time dimension table so that our Business Analysts can analyze the data by Year by Quarter by Month or whatever time period they require.