Running the commands suggested, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date Mon Aug 11 12:55:15 EST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ PID=$$; ( date +"%s -" ; cut -f 1 -d ' ' /proc/uptime ; echo " + (" ; cut -f 22 -d ' ' /proc/$PID/stat ; echo ' /100 )' ) | (tr '\n' ' '; echo ) ; ps -p $PID -o pid,start_time,cmd 1218423322 - 2339691.29 + ( 233925387 /100 ) PID START CMD 24954 12:48 bash [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo '1218423322 - 2339691.29 + ( 233925387 /100 )' | bc | perl -e 'use Time::localtime; my $mytime=<>; ; print ctime($mytime)."\n";' Mon Aug 11 12:48:03 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date Mon Aug 11 12:55:46 EST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date Mon Aug 11 12:55:49 EST 2008
Cheers, Paul Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]