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Display system uptime in a Finder dialog
Authored by: andrew_zinn on Tue, Mar 18 2008 at 10:01AM PDT

Somewhere along the way I downloaded this version of an Uptime applescript from Apple:

set this_data to do shell script "uptime"
set x to the offset of "up" in this_data
set this_data to (characters x thru -1 of this_data) as string
display dialog this_data buttons {"OK"} default button 1