[Joker88]

Is there a timeline somewhere in my mac that shows, when the mac was shut down the last time?

Appreciate your help

[MacsWork]

/Applications/Utilities/Conlsole

Look at the windowserver.log

This shows the time I shut down and the next timeI booted up. These are consecutive entries.

Nov 03 16:12:40 [85] loginwindow connection closed; closing server.
Nov 03 19:35:15 [71] Server is starting up

[mbohn]

in a terminal window type "uptime" without the quotes.

[vansmith]

Originally Posted by mbohn

in a terminal window type "uptime" without the quotes.

That won't show you when you last shut down. That will only show you your uptime (the time your machine has been on).

[Dysfunction]

last will do it as well.

last | awk '{print $4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$8}'| grep shutdown
Oct 28 15:38 - shutdown
Oct 28 15:38 - shutdown
Sep 17 17:48 - shutdown
Sep 17 12:55 - shutdown
Sep 17 12:53 - shutdown

[Chris H.]

I typed last into Terminal, and I have a question:

What's with all the reboots when I hardly ever reboot my system?

[Dysfunction]

do they coincide with any updates?

[mbohn]

Originally Posted by vansmith

That won't show you when you last shut down. That will only show you your uptime (the time your machine has been on).

What's the difference?

[vansmith]

Before I explain this, I'll let you think about it for a while.

[McBie]

Originally Posted by mbohn

What's the difference?

The difference is that when I shut down the MBP and go on a world cruise for 3 months, then come back and start the MBP, the ' uptime' results will not take into account the time I spent on my world cruise

I believe the question was specific on " last shutdown " and not on " last reboot "

Cheers ... McBie