dmesg question

[Florian Diesch]

""Evuraan::ഏവൂരാന്‍" " <evuraan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 time stamp, starting with boot up.


   Florian
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