[clue-tech] /proc times.

[David Anselmi]

Chris Schock wrote:
[...]
>>But I look at /proc and /proc/1 and they say 10:53.  /proc/2 (and many
>>others after that) say 17:54  which is what uptime says.  Anyone know
>>why the difference?
>>
>>Perhaps our TZ (-7) has something to do with it, though 10:53 isn't UTC
>>so it's 7 hours the wrong way.
> 
> 10:53 isn't UTC, but 17:54 is. My guess is that some things use localtime,
> and others always use UTC for a time stamp.

No.  The machine was booted at 17:54 local (that's MST, or tango -7 for 
you navy geeks) which is 00:54 (the next day) in UTC.

For Linux filesystems the file timestamps are always kept in UTC 
(actually epoch seconds) and that gets converted to local time for display.

[...]
> 2. Something in /proc got added right away in UTC, then ntpdate or ntpd
> kicked in later in the boot process and adjusted the clock back a few
> seconds while other things in /proc were added.

I'll go with this one and answer my own question.  When the kernel boots 
it loads the time from the RTC and stamps /proc, assuming that the RTC 
is UTC (it isn't on this box).  Then it figures out the timezone and 
resets itself.

Interestingly, the ps stime for init is correct.

Dave