* Matt Zimmerman (mdz@debian.org) wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:47:31PM +0200, Florian Weingarten wrote: > > > * Package name : up > > * Version : 0.3 > > * Upstream Author : Davin Cantrell <davin@burdell.org> > > * URL : ftp://ftp.burdell.org/pub/up/ > > * License : GNU General Public License > > * Description : small replacement for the uptime program > > > > "up replaces the uptime program that comes with most Linux distributions. > > It displays the uptime and not the number of users, current time, or load > > average. It does not stop calculating uptime at days either, it will figure > > out your uptime all the way up to decades. For example, an uptime of 56 > > days is shown as 8 weeks." > > Wouldn't it be better to enhance the procps uptime program, rather than > providing a different program with just this one small additional feature? I agree with this and wonder if the linux kernel was ever actually fixed to not wrap the uptime counter at 497 days anyway. If not that cute feature of going to decades, at least under linux, might not be used much. Stephen
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