Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes: > man uptime I have thought of uptime, but this requires doing date calculation (I have to subtract the uptime from the current time), which I wanted to avoid; plus I wanted to have it reproducible (i.e. if I calculate the "startup time" twice in succession, I wanted to get the same result - using the uptime calculation might well give differences of, say, one, in rare cases 2, seconds for the startup time on repeated calculations.
But it seems there is no alternative. I had not expected that Windows would not log such events, like starting up or having some user logged in... Ronald -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/