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From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
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Tim Kientzle <kientzle@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