On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:44:21AM -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote: > On Thursday 03 May 2007 08:20, Robert Waldner wrote: > > 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:~# > > > > On all of my other machines I tried that, the Start time is the current > > time, just as expected. > > > > Any hints on why this is so? It's no big deal, just ... odd. > > > > cheers+TIA, > > &rw > > Boy, you must have a really *really* fast processor. > > I think your machine is causing grep to travel time. Please file a bug report. > > 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. > > Or maybe you have an old grep running?
could libc affect this too? doesn't it ultimately handle all the time stuff? A
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