Re: 1Jan 70 -- FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE + Current

Tim Kientzle <kientzle_at_acm.org> writes:
> This has been discussed on this list several
> times:  those processes are all started
> before the kernel has initialized the time.
> 
> Because FreeBSD has to read the disk
> before it can know whether the hardware clock
> is in UTC or local time, it's hard to really
> do much better than this.  (I suppose you
> could edit 'ps' to display such times
> as '-'; that might be less misleading.)

...or the kernel could edit the processes once it has a clock
available.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft