:( I only reboot when my machine freezes or when updates require a reboot. I did a lot of on-call in my life and I saved tons of time by leaving everything open exactly as I left it during the day.
~> w
11:19 up 18 days, 17:03, 9 users, load averages: 3.87 2.96 2.39I logged into a firewalled Windows VM on EC2 that’s been running an internal micro service that was acting up and it caught my eye that task manager showed an uptime of 6 days making my mind immediately think it might be a bug caused by the recent reboot or perhaps the update that triggered it.
It turns out no reboot had taken place and in fact, the uptime counter had merely rolled over - and not for the first time! Bug was unrelated to the machine and it’s still (afaik) ticking merrily away.
(Our `uptime` tool for Windows [0] reported the actual time the machine was up correctly.)