Uptime: 12 hours...

# uptime
10:28am up 12:30, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00

... plus 497 days

... plus another 497 days

A Linux machine (100 MHz Pentium) I've been using for a nameserver has just rolled over the 497 day uptime counter twice:

$ datemath 'today - ( 497 * 2 )'
10/24/2002

I wonder what I was doing then that forced a reboot?