Do minidump files contain the timestamp of the crash?

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Published on 2010-03-15T09:52:48Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 12:29 UTC
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The MiscInfoStream in a minidump file contains the process create time. I'd like to find out how long the process has been running for before the crash. Does a minidump file contain the exception timestamp anywhere?

WinDbg on this dump file displays the following, which implies that it's in there somewhere...

Debug session time: Tue Dec 29 15:49:20.000 2009 (GMT+0)
System Uptime: not available
Process Uptime: 0 days 0:33:03.000

Note that today's Mar 15, so this is almost certainly the timestamp of the crash. I'd like a programmatic way to retrieve that value and the "Process Uptime" value.

I found the MINIDUMP_MISC_INFO_3 structure, which contains some timezone information, but it doesn't seem to contain the exception time.

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