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Re: ps Start time oddness



On Thu, 03 May 2007 11:44:21 EDT, Matthew K Poer writes:
>> I have one machine (i386, up-to-date Etch) that always displays the
>>  "Start" time in ps as 13 minutes (invariably) in the past, eg:
>>
>> qusrv02:~# hwclock --systohc
>> qusrv02:~# date
>> Thu May  3 12:42:02 CEST 2007
>> qusrv02:~# ps auxw |grep grep
>> root     14816  0.0  0.0   2996   680 pts/0    S+   12:29   0:00 grep grep
>> qusrv02:~#

>Boy, you must have a really *really* fast processor.
>
>I think your machine is causing grep to travel time. Please file a bug report.

If I knew against what I'd do that.

>Seriously though, that is weird. I wonder if you are clean on Etch or if you
>upgraded from Sarge, because that upgrade adjusted timezone settings. Not
>that you are off by an hour, just 13 minutes. How odd.

The machine was installed as Sarge, but it's fully upgraded.

>Or maybe you have an old grep running?

Nope, I checked that.

cheers,
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