I finally did find that explanation at http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5804/correlating-var-log-timestamps and the script he wrote at https://github.com/intuited/syslogdriver/blob/master/syslogdriver.py

I'd love to see yours if it could be arranged (though I have to admit I might not get to it right away.

Thanks for the quick response!
Larry

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:55 PM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
what does "[   166.287]" mean
Seconds elapsed since system boot.
I wrote a script that translates those seconds to 'human' time, if you need it.
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Dazed_75 writes:
what does "[   166.287]" mean in Linux log file?  Some log files have
timestamps while others have this type of notation.
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