dmesg question

[Derek Broughton]

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(some pretty odd encoding, there...)

> What does the 1st field in dmesg output or (/var/log/dmesg) tell?
> 
> $ dmesg|awk {'print $1'} | tail -5
> [21703.032000]
> [21703.044000]
> [21703.048000]
> [21703.048000]
> [21703.060000]

It's a timestamp, though I can't say how it is to be interpreted.
-- 
derek