Re: Uptime Since... (#174)

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Matthew M. [email protected]
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Uptime Sinceā€¦ (#174)

Nice and easy one this week. Your task is to write a Ruby script that
reports the date and time of your last reboot, making use of the
uptime command.

While uptime is available on the various Unixes and Mac OS X,
Windows users might need to do a little extra work. Here are two
options for Windows users.