Negative uptime?

[Deirdre Saoirse]

My system has been acting very weird and this is a key symptom:

[root@rockhopper /root]# uptime
 11:58am  up -24855 days, -3:-14,  3 users,  load average: 0.22, 0.00,
0.26

Can anyone enlighten me?

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