Let's talk about time
Goal This article explains the importance and challenges of time in digital forensics and incident response. You will learn how time is handled in various open source tools and get practical tips on managing time in your environment. What is time? Wikipedia defines time as " ... the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. " It is foundational to almost every interaction in modern society. It is also essential to modern information technology’s function and interactions with humans as well as other systems. How is time measured The question of how time is measured alone could fill hundreds of pages. It kept Galieo, Newton and Einstein busy for a lifetime. For the sake of this article we will simplify the consideration of time to the unit of measurement we call a “second” on planet Earth. A second can be defined as: "the duration of 9,192,631,770 [cycle...