diff --git a/nando-stats b/nando-stats
index d2b4f00..ae386cd 100755
--- a/nando-stats
+++ b/nando-stats
@@ -11,6 +11,19 @@ function filesize {
     }' || return $?
 }
 
+function shorttime {
+        awk 'BEGIN{ x = '$1'
+        split("s m h d",type)
+        split("1 60 3600 86400",divisor)
+        for(i=4;y < 1;i--)
+            y = x / (divisor[i])
+        str=int(y) type[i+1] 
+        if (x==0) { str = "0" }
+        print str
+    }' || return $?
+    
+}
+
 cores=$( grep -c processor /proc/cpuinfo )
 load=$( cat /proc/loadavg | cut -d" " -f3 | tr  -d [:cntrl:] )  
 echo -n "L:$load/$cores M:" 
@@ -27,5 +40,7 @@ echo -n "$used+$cache/$total U:"
 ps a --format user| grep -v -e root -e USER | sort -u | wc -l | tr -c -d [:digit:]
 printf " R/H:%s/%s" $( df / | awk '{print $5}' | tail -n +2 ) $( df /home | awk '{print $5}' | tail -n +2 )
 
+printf " up:%s" $( shorttime $( cut -d" " -f1 /proc/uptime ) )
+
 # exit okay
 true