STIME April 20 on ps

[Gil Kloepfer Jr.]

Has anyone else experienced this phenomena?  My system was only up for a day,
but ps reports:

    UID   PID  PPID  C   STIME  TTY  TIME COMMAND
   root     0     0255  Apr 20    ? 1408:55 swapper
   root     1     0  3  Apr 20    ?  0:12 init
   root     2     0  1  Apr 20    ?  0:00 pagedaemon
   root     3     0  3  Apr 20    ?  3:49 windaemon
    gil   535     1  3 07:01:25  w1  0:06 ksh
   root  1209     1  3 22:44:08   ?  0:00 uugetty
    gil  1218   535  3 22:47:00  w1  0:01 postnews
    gil  1219  1218  9 22:47:33  w1  0:02 vi
   root   109     1  3 23:01:53  w1  0:26 cron
    gil  1221  1219 15 22:48:09  w1  0:00 sh
    gil  1222  1221 75 22:48:10  w1  0:01 ps

that my system processes were started on April 20.  Note that I did a
hardware reset when I booted the machine the last time.  Could this be
taking the time from a software R/T clock which hasn't been set yet until
the hardware R/T clock is copied to the software one during some phase of
the boot process?  I know that sometimes the STIME is correct, but I
really don't have the desire to keep rebooting the machine to find out when.

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