Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:18:45 -0400 From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1Jan 70 -- FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE + Current Message-ID: <20030423201845.C36743@espresso.bsdmike.org> In-Reply-To: <3EA72D85.4030205@acm.org>; from kientzle@acm.org on Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 05:19:17PM -0700 References: <DCECJGCCEMJIDCEAHBEEIEOHCBAA.adrian@nu-earth.net> <200304231644.50685.cbiffle@safety.net> <3EA72D85.4030205@acm.org>
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Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> writes: > This has been discussed on this list several > times: those processes are all started > before the kernel has initialized the time. > > Because FreeBSD has to read the disk > before it can know whether the hardware clock > is in UTC or local time, it's hard to really > do much better than this. (I suppose you > could edit 'ps' to display such times > as '-'; that might be less misleading.) ...or the kernel could edit the processes once it has a clock available. Best regards, Mike Barcroft
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