Way OT: How long does your box run for?

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Robert Huff wrote:

>Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes:
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>> IIRC, Netcraft now claims that most
>> new FreeBSD builds "reset" to zero after 400-something days, so
>> some of their statistics may be no longer as valid...
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>	From the NetCraft FAQ:
>
>Why do some Operating Systems never show uptimes above 497 days ?
>
>	The method that Netcraft uses to determine the uptime of a
>	server is bounded by an upper limit of 497 days for some
>	Operating Systems (see above). It is therefore not possible to
>	see uptimes for these systems that go beyond this upper
>	limit. Although we could in theory attempt to compute the true
>	uptime for OS's with this upper limit by monitoring for
>	restarts at the expected time, we prefer not to do this as it
>	can be inaccurate and error prone.
>
>	... which is not exactly the same thing.
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>

Point taken.  Typing faster than thinking is dangerous;
particularly when not looking at the datum to which one
is referring.  Thank you.

KDK