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  2. Hours of service - Wikipedia

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    The 16-hour rule may be invoked once per 34 hour reset, if the 5 day pattern has been established. The driver must be relieved from work after the 16th hour. Drivers for oilfield operations in the petroleum industry, groundwater drilling operations, construction materials, and utility service vehicles are permitted to take a 24-hour restart.

  3. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration - Wikipedia

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    The final rule required truck drivers who use the "34-hour restart" provision to maximize their weekly work hours to limit the restart to once a week and to include in the restart period at least two nights off duty from 1:00 to 5:00 a.m., when one's 24-hour body clock supposedly needs and benefits from sleep the most.

  4. Daylight saving time - Wikipedia

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    Daylight saving time ( DST ), also referred to as daylight saving (s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time ( United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer, so that darkness falls at a later clock time.

  5. Watchdog timer - Wikipedia

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    A watchdog timer ( WDT, or simply a watchdog ), sometimes called a computer operating properly timer ( COP timer ), [1] is an electronic or software timer that is used to detect and recover from computer malfunctions. Watchdog timers are widely used in computers to facilitate automatic correction of temporary hardware faults, and to prevent ...

  6. Coordinated Universal Time - Wikipedia

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    Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time. It establishes a reference for the current time, forming the basis for civil time and time zones. UTC facilitates international communication, navigation, scientific research, and commerce. UTC has been widely embraced by most countries and ...

  7. Clock - Wikipedia

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    Casio F-91W digital watch, one of the most popular watches ever. A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units such as the day, the lunar month, and the year. Devices operating on several physical ...

  8. System time - Wikipedia

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    System time. In computer science and computer programming, system time represents a computer system's notion of the passage of time. In this sense, time also includes the passing of days on the calendar . System time is measured by a system clock, which is typically implemented as a simple count of the number of ticks that have transpired since ...

  9. Uptime - Wikipedia

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    Uptime. Uptime is a measure of system reliability, expressed as the percentage of time a machine, typically a computer, has been working and available. Uptime is the opposite of downtime . Htop adds an exclamation mark when uptime is longer than 100 days.