Monitoring the system operating hours (or power-on hours) with hourmeter
by Marc O. Gloor
Abstract

The command 'hm' displays the operating hours (or power-on hours) of your hardware.
For further information about the command read the (included) manpage.

Please note that hourmeter is NOT uptime:

UPTIME(1) Tell how long the system has been running since LAST REBOOT.
HOURMETER(1)
Tell the total amount of operating-hours the hardware has been running since first INSTALLATION.

Screenshots of 'hm' command output

'hm' output in xterm:

hm output in xterm
 'hm' output under X11:


hm output under xmessage (X11)


Download

Source package (extract using tar xzvf hourmeter-1.0.3.tar.gz, run ./install.sh): hourmeter-1.0.3.tar.gz [.tar.gz, 10kb]
Debian package (install using dpkg -i hourmeter_1.0.3-1_all.deb): hourmeter_1.0.3-1_all.deb [.deb, 5.2kb]
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