[olug] Uptime to boot date

[David Walker]

If you really have reached 493 days you are nearly to the 497 day mark.
At 497 the counter resets and your uptime command will show 0 days uptime.
I have a couple of machines that recently hit this mark and I am now using the 
following command to show boot date.

bootdate=`ls -ald --full-time /proc/`; echo ${bootdate:42:24}


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.