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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:31:49 +0100
From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: "Vladimir B.Grebenschikov" <vova@express.ru>
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Subject: Re: bin/30680: uptime and w utilities lie about real uptime
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:21:08PM +0400, Vladimir B.Grebenschikov wrote:
> why utility increases uptime on 30 seconds ??
> Is any real reasons for it ?

It adds 30 because it wants to round the number of minutes to the
nearest minute, instead of rounding down. Unfortunately this isn't
a sensible thing to do if you are also going to display the number
of seconds.

	David.

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