From: Matthew Moss Date: 2008-08-25T23:44:39+09:00 Subject: Re: Uptime Since... (#174) My own solution: require 'date' (now, _, dd, _, _, dhm) = `uptime`.split(/ +|,/) (dd, dh, dm) = dd.to_i, *dhm.split(':').map { |x| x.to_i } dh += (dm / 60.0) dd += (dh / 24.0) last = DateTime.parse(now) - dd puts "Last reboot: #{last.year} #{Date::ABBR_MONTHNAMES[last.mon]} #{last.day} at #{last.hour}:#{last.min}"