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From: Mark Geisert <mark@maxrnd.com>
Subject: Re: ps weirdness...
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:23:59 +0000 (UTC)
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>  > 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

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