At least in ultrix, uptime gives days:
12:22:43 umbar $ uptime
 12:22pm  up 506 days, 11:42,  15 users,  load average: 0.23, 0.04, 0.01

Thats on a '240 running ultrix 4.4.. i used to have netbsd on my 240
and the 260, but both run ultrix because of the X server. (plus, now i dont
want to down that machine, with such a nice uptime :-)

happy hacking,
isildur

(oops, i should have looked all the way down, you already checked the source
and it only counts days.. :)


On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Paul Mather wrote:
> I've had NetBSD running on a 5000/240 since way back.  In fact, at one
> stage I was about to find out if "uptime" switched to displaying "1
> year, ..." when rolling over from 365 days, but someone decided our
> server room needed a physical rearrangement about a fortnight shy of the
> rollover date[*]... :-(
> 
> FWIW, the 5000/240 is:
> 
> NetBSD 1.4U (WENDOLENE) #0: Fri Mar 10 18:43:18 EST 2000
> DECstation 5000/240 (3MAXPLUS)
> total memory = 24576 KB
> cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R3000 CPU Rev. 3.0 with MIPS R3010 FPC Rev. 4.0
> 
> 10:14PM  up 200 days, 10:17, 1 user, load averages: 0.06, 0.10, 0.08
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul.
> 
> [*] Of course, curiosity got the better of me, so I looked at the source
> code and found out that it doesn't.  Days are the highest unit of
> uptime.
> 
> -- 
> e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu
> 
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa
>