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Again, much thanks!

I am going to try incorporating several of the suggestions you made. I have noticed when running the version of the script that I came up with I get an occasional system...

Okay,

So I fumbled through it and I've managed to get my script running, all except re-setting the system time. I have $h $m $s and I'm trying to make a single variable $set_time that takes the...

Thanks for the tips!

Using epoch time is very intriguing because it avoids a lot of the pain of converting back and forth between HH:MM:SS and seconds, but I'm having trouble setting the system...

Hello,

I'm trying to write a bash script that will query the current system time (OS X 10.6.6) and then convert the output from HH:MM:SS into time in seconds. The output of the system time command...

So I've been making some progress on my question and I was actually playing around with the date command before I saw your response. On mac OS I have been using the command:

systemsetup -gettime...

Methyl, yes, great point.

This is a single user stand alone system running a custom simulation application for which I am collecting results at 1 second intervals. The application takes into...

KevinGB is on the right track - the script isn't meant to adjust the system time to a reference time source to keep it accurate. I have an application that references the system time and I want to...

Hello everyone,

I am trying to write a script that will accomplish the following:

- query current system time and store result into a variable
- wait for some amount of time, say 300 seconds...