User:Kim/Special Issue 27/Timekeeping device

tests

can be found on cerealbox timekeeping-device/

terminal

ping

to graph (graphic) visualizing length of seconds

traceroute

time (cmd)

ideas

• server time
  • expand on cerealbox uptime, make more small api's and interfaces for them
  • not so much making a clock for cerealbox but more about exploring/ surfacing its (ways of passing, keeping) time
  • this is also on labour, questions of service, maintenance
  • in the room are also expectations: for services to run smoothly, total availability, fast (and direct) delivery
    • Mierle Laderman Ukeles' Maintenence Art
    • User:Kim/reading/In-depth: Time Consciousness and Discipline in the Industrial Revolution
    • Executing Micro-temporality
  • how do we interface with server (time) ?
• text as timekeeping device User:Sevgi
  • in what ways? (we use texts, rhymes, phrases to map time periods and rhythm – text can age – a log) ...

references

• Lowtech Magazines Server stats
• Solar protocol Server stats over time

cereal time

general time data

$ timedatectl

outputs

Local time: Mon 2025-05-19 19:13:43 BST
Universal time: Mon 2025-05-19 18:13:43 UTC
RTC time: n/a
Time zone: Europe/London (BST, +0100)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no

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run processes

$ ps (or $ ps aux)

outputs information on run processes (aux is more specific, shows user associated with each process, the start time, the memory consumption, the total running time, command associated with each process)

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last reboot

$ last reboot

outputs

reboot   system boot  6.6.47+rpt-rpi-v Tue May  6 09:24   still running
wtmp begins Wed Apr 23 09:46:29 2025