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Time terminology

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I'm a bit lost with time terminology.

I understand what epoch is and the difference between GMT and UTC.

However I'm a bit confused about the following notations:

  • calendar time
  • local time
  • wall time

How are these related to timezones and daylight savings?

P.S. Good link (thanks to @ZincX)

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dimba Avatar asked Jun 08 '11 11:06

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  • Calendar time is the time that has elapsed since the epoch (t - E).
  • Local time is calendar time corrected for the timezone and DST.
  • Wall time: I assume you mean wallclock time. This it the time elapsed since a process or job has started running.

RTFM time(7), localtime(3), time(1).

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Fred Foo Avatar answered Sep 29 '22 03:09

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