dmesg time format

ithawtewrong · 10-20-2006, 12:46 PM

I've seen some post with people saying that the time displayed in dmesg is the uptime of the system. I have noticed that /var/log/messages displays the actual time and date. Is there a way to make dmesg display the actual time and date?

bulliver · 10-20-2006, 04:11 PM

I don't see any timestamps in my dmesg. Are you seeing something different?

ithawtewrong · 10-20-2006, 09:06 PM

The time I'm referring to as uptime is the bold faced area in [ ]

[ 89.809234] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 89.809239] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7
[ 97.149421] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 147.924662] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 151.631420] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A

It was simply my understanding that this was the uptime. If I'm wrong please correct me. It's an amd64 system so I'm not sure if that matters.