no days in uptime

From: Sebastiaan (S.Breedveld_at_EWI.TUDelft.NL)
Date: 07/30/03

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    Hi,

    I have encountered a strange problem in my uptime status. I have a
    computer running for over 500 days and a script that displays the uptime
    in days with MRTG.

    For some reason, after 497 days the uptime doesn't return day information
    any more:

    $ uptime
     08:36:00 up 14:48, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.18, 0.16

    and

    $ cat /proc/uptime
    53341.82 17513797.50

    I am sure of 2 things:
    - it wasn't me (I was on vacation and I don't have auto-update scripts
    running)
    - the computer doesn't reboot daily, since /tmp isn't cleaned

    I am running kernel 2.4.18 on a PowerMac.

    Any ideas what is going on here?

    Thanks in advance,
    Sebastiaan 

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