how top counts time

[Zbigniew Szalbot]

Hello,

Just interested how to interpret time information in TOP.

For example, my java appilcation eventually ran longer than 999 units
of time and then top displayed it as 16 or 17H (don't recall now). How
do I determine time units in top?
Does 1000 equal 16/17H? I did look at man top but could not really
find this information there.

  PID USERNAME   THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
10359 root         2  20    0   227M 34216K kserel  17.8H  0.00% java
61600 mysql        6  20    0 55868K 16940K kserel 363:34  0.00% mysqld

Thanks a lot!

Zbigniew Szalbot