[asterisk-users] Amazing "show uptime"

[Tim Panton]

On 12 Sep 2008, at 09:20, Michiel van Baak wrote:

> On 09:59, Fri 12 Sep 08, Stephen Davies wrote:
>>> xxxxxx-montague-gardens*CLI> show uptime
>>> System uptime: 38 years, 37 weeks, 4 days, 10 hours, 47 minutes, 11
>> seconds
>>
>> Amazing.  Especially considering:
>>
>>> root at xxxxxx-montague-gardens:/var/log> uptime
>>> 09:58:14 up 18:42, load average: 0.21, 0.09, 0.02
>>
>> Steve
>
> Did ntp/rdate set the clock forward for 38 years right after boot ?

I'd guess the battery on your motherboard has died so it is going back  
to 1970 at
boottime.

Watchout, because this can also mean that your BIOS is about to
loose all settings too which can cause it to forget how to talk to the  
harddrive :-(

T.