Conference turris::digital_unix

9692.0. "Digital UNIX's listing of very long uptimes; QAR #52801" by NABETH::alan (Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.) Thu May 01 1997 17:23

	I submitted this QAR today.  I think it speaks for itself.

	A MIPS/ULTRIX system we have at this facility recently passed
	365 days of uptime.  It is running rwhod and when I look at
	the time from a Digital UNIX V4.0B system it displays:

		% ruptime cxunx2
		cxunx2      up ??:??,     0 users,  load 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
			       ^^^^^

	An older version ULTRIX source displayed this time when the
	uptime exceeded 360 days (12*30*24*60*60).  But, for the period
	after 360 days and now, the Digital UNIX system did fine.  It
	looks like Digital UNIX just changed the "It can't have been
	up that long" check to an even year.  It really should behave
	better for very long uptime systems.

	Uptime on the ULTRIX system does show the correct uptime.

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	The actual time is:

	2:13pm  up 365 days,  2:24,  5 users,  load average: 0.03, 0.00, 0.00