[olug] Uptime to boot date

[Jon H. Larsen]

Are you set to use GMT?

Jon L.

On 29 Oct 2002, Quinn Coldiron wrote:

> Date: 29 Oct 2002 13:58:48 -0600
> From: Quinn Coldiron <qcoldir at nmhs.org>
> Reply-To: olug at olug.org
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: Re: [olug] Uptime to boot date
> 
> Are you sure?  I booted my laptop at about 7:45 this morning.  Here's my
> listing:
> 
> dr-xr-xr-x  116 root     root            0 Oct 29 01:47 proc
> 
> The stuff in proc is all different.
> 
> RH 7.3
> 
> Quinn
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:41, David Walker wrote:
> > Also, the creation date of the /proc directory will be the reboot date of your 
> > machine.
> > 
> > On Tuesday 29 October 2002 01:26 pm, (Via wrote:
> > > Here is a tcl script
> > >
> > >
> > > #!/usr/bin/tclsh
> > >
> > > set proc_uptime [exec cat /proc/uptime]
> > > set uptime [string range $proc_uptime 0 [string first {.} $proc_uptime]]
> > >
> > > set boot_date [expr int([clock seconds] - $uptime)]
> > >
> > > puts [clock format $boot_date]
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 29 October 2002 11:27 am, (Via wrote:
> > > > Anyone know a quick way how I can turn the uptime output into an actual
> > > > date/time of the last boot?  Would it be the date command?
> > > >
> > > > [~]$ uptime
> > > >  11:25am  up 493 days,  2:41
> > > >
> > > > Jon L.
> > >
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