> > As for the date issue, what you're seeing is the traditional UNIX/POSIX > > start time (the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970). It's nothing strange. [...] > 2. Why is the start time Jan 1, 1970 (or in my case Dec 31 1969?) when > the process was only started today?
You are looking at something transient. The time is a count of seconds; it is initialized to zero, which corresponds to Jan 1 1970. At some point it gets updated to the current time. You happen to see the time before it's been updated. ..mark captcha: monstrance -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple