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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by jdsnape on Friday June 07, 2019 @04:55AM (#20122807)
I think that command is showing you the total number of hours the system has been running, not the uptime - so it could have been rebooted for patching

[Edit] - Slightly pedantically, it's the number of hours one of the disks has been powered up

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by spudlyo on Friday June 07, 2019 @10:11AM (#20124643)
That's right. We've got 4 bog standard 750G WD Caviar Blues in a software RAID array in that machine, all powered up for 11+ years, none of which appear to have caught any errors during that time. Pretty amazing.

The OS has been updated and the box rebooted for kernel updates a number of times over the years.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by INTPenis on Friday June 07, 2019 @05:40AM (#20122993)
Yes I suspected as much. So really this is bragging about continuous power for 11 years. Which is impressive.

I never saw anyone measure uptime in that way before. But it make a lot more sense than measuring the OS uptime.

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