I have some unit tests that expects the 'current time' to be different than DateTime.Now and I don't want to change the computer's time, obviously. What's the best strategy to achieve this?

In my test case, I need test time sensitive method, in that method we're using java 8 class LocalDate, it is not Joda. What can I do to change time, when I'm running test

If I do a find . -mmin -1 I get 'myfile' which was modified in last one minute. But when I want to search a particular string in that file by doing grep 'myString' myfile -mmin -1 I get the e...

Is it possible to change the System Time in Java? It should run under Windows and Linux. I've tried it with the Runtime Class in but there is a problem with the permissions. This is my code: St...

Is there a way, either in code or with JVM arguments, to override the current time, as presented via System.currentTimeMillis, other than manually changing the system clock on the host machine? A l...

I want to know the difference between java.util.Date and java.time.LocalDate. I've heard that java.time.LocalDate brings user environment time, not server time, but I want to know if it's tr...

I would like to use my local time as the System Time in Google Colab, but I believe by default it is set to UTC time as indicated here: Current Date Format How am I able to change the system time ...

I depend on hardware that may or may not respond. As a consequence I frequently end up writing functions with timeouts. System time is a known source for brittle unit tests so injecting a controlle...

I have a couple of questions around time in a Docker container: Does a Docker container (e.g. ubuntu:16.04) have the same time as the host machine when it is started? Will the time be kept in syn...

I couldn't find much documentation on this. How do I query InfluxDB to show me current database system time and date?

Since I'm doing some time measurements at the moment, I wondered if it is possible to measure the user time or system time without using the Benchmark class or the command line utility time. Using...

I am currently working on a license manager using java, I will be specifying a start and end date for my application so I can force a licensed user to re-license the program after a certain a...

I'm needing some Ints to use as seed to random number generation and so I wanted to use the old trick of using the system time as seed. So I tried to use the Data.Time package and I managed to do ...

I have a time value represented in SYSTEMTIME, i want to add/subtract 1 hour from it and get the newly obtained SYSTEMTIME. I want the conversion should take care of the date change on addition/sub...

I want to get difference between two SYSTEMTIME variable. I saw someone asked this question here before, but he was told to convert both SYSTEMTIME structures to FILETIME.. Is there another way to ...

I would like to measure the system time it takes to execute some code. To do this I know I would sandwich said code between two calls to getrusage(), but I get some unexpected results... #include ...

I am making a program, in C++ using Visual Studio 2005, that needs to create a watermark with the time on a set of images. These images are taken from a video that were processed at certain time i...

I need to run a periodic task in an Android application. I currently use a timer like this: final Handler guiHandler = new Handler(); // the task to run final Runnable myRunnable = new Runnable()...

Is it possible to determine the day of the week, using SYSTEMTIME, if a date (month-day-year) is provided or is this structure one-way only? What is the most lightweight way to accomplish what I a...

I'm working with a WPF/C# app where I need to lock out users from accessing a particular feature for some amount of time. Basically, from the time a certain event happens, I want to prevent certain...