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Matthew Woehlke wrote on 11 September 2008 17:08:

> Phil Betts wrote:
>> [...] this is
>> Windowsland where rebooting is a way of life; even Windows'
>> programmers never expected uptime to exceed 2^32 milliseconds.
> 
> (That's approximately 49 days for those too lazy to whip out a
> calculator. Which is pretty sad ;-).)

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216641
  "Computer Hangs After 49.7 Days"

> I'd actually be quite shocked if I don't have some Windows boxes around
> that have exceeded that (at least since NT5). I think I've kept my home
> computer up longer (back when it ran W2K), and likely some lab machines
> around work (which, granted, never have software or updates installed,
> so no reason to reboot).

  It was only ever true for Win95 and early versions of Win98.  All NT-series
OSs count time in units of 100ns using a 64-bit long long.  Which won't run
out any time soon....

    cheers,
      DaveK
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