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Re: ps weirdness...
- From: Mark Geisert <mark at maxrnd dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:23:59 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: ps weirdness...
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> > As for the date issue, what you're seeing is the traditional UNIX/POSIX
> > start time (the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970). It's nothing
strange.
[...]
> 2. Why is the start time Jan 1, 1970 (or in my case Dec 31 1969?) when
> the process was only started today?
You are looking at something transient. The time is a count of seconds; it
is initialized to zero, which corresponds to Jan 1 1970. At some point it
gets updated to the current time. You happen to see the time before it's
been updated.
..mark
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