Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs
Subject: Re: STIME April 20 on ps
Summary: Perhaps date was wrong when system went down?
Keywords: ps bootup time
Message-ID: <4787@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 88 06:36:51 GMT
References: <369@limbic.UUCP>
Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Distribution: unix-pc
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <369@limbic.UUCP> gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) writes:
>Has anyone else experienced this phenomena?  My system was only up for a day,
>but ps reports:
>
>    UID   PID  PPID  C   STIME  TTY  TIME COMMAND
>   root     0     0255  Apr 20    ? 1408:55 swapper

			 ^^^^^^

I just realized that my previous posting didn't do much toward explaining
this, so I'll take a guess...  could the date have been set to Apr 20 just
before you shut your system down prior to the most recent boot?
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