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

From: Simon L. Nielsen <simon_at_nitro.dk>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:55:41 +0200
On 2003.04.23 17:19:17 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> 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.)

This is actually a very small patch.

Note 3600 is chosen rather arbitrarily since I don't really know how
long into the boot process the kernel threads can be started (since I
would guess 0 is the very beginning of the boot).  All my threads had
time time 1.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen

Received on Wed Apr 23 2003 - 15:55:45 UTC

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