[asterisk-users] uptime

[Hans Witvliet]

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 05:57 +0000, A J Stiles wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 Feb 2011, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
> > Now this is what I call uptime...
> >
> > minipbx*CLI> show uptime
> > System uptime: 41 years, 7 weeks, 6 days, 3 hours, 26 minutes, 46 seconds
> > Last reload: 8 hours, 3 minutes, 51 seconds
> >
> > Bizarre bug?
> 
> I'm guessting, this is a brand new machine on its first ever boot, with 
> no "last bootup time" information saved anywhere.  So it assumes the last 
> bootup date was 1970-01-01 00:00:00, i.e. "zero time" on all Unix-like 
> systems.  That would explain the 41 years, anyway.
> 
Reminds me of the time that people normally have to set the time always
after starting up. At that period (very first orriginal IBM-PC) there
was a manufacturer shipping a untested version of a
real-time-clock-chip, that had eight days per week.

Was eager to get one of those: nice to have a day for just playing with
the PC ;-)