On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 7:21 AM R.Wieser <address@not.available> wrote: > > Chris > > > That's possibly because you're looking at psutil, which is a third > > party package. Here's its documentation: > > My info came frome here: > https://www.programcreek.com/python/example/53873/psutil.boot_time > > Looking at example 1 it looks the be the same.
Yep, looks like that site probably cribbed the example from the docs, or similar. Your code is fine. > > But I don't know what its definition is, whether it's "current time > > minus uptime" or "timestamp recorded during bootup". It might > > not even be consistent across platforms. > > Oh yoy ! :-\ Yeah... welcome to the wonderful world of cross-platform libraries that depend on different facilities. Different OSes make different promises, and the library has to try to paper over those distinctions and give a consistent result. It's usually fine, but there WILL be edge cases. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
