How do you retrieve the current time on a server?

Check " man date ". You can let it display you the hours, minutes, seconds and nanoseconds with

date +%H:%M:%S.%N

See the output of

while : ; do date +%H:%M:%S.%N ; done

interrupt the infinite while loop with CTRL+C .

If you want less decimal places you could do

while : ; do date +%H:%M:%S.%N | cut -c 1-12 ; done

Increase or decrease the output length changing the "12" on "-c 1-12" after cut.

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