On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:47:20 +0800, Ivan wrote in message 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> G''day all.
> 
> I''ve written a client that drives FG using the native-fdm I/O
> mechanism.
> 
> For the ''time'' variable, I've tried entering zero, and then entering
> the value returned by (Win32's) GetTickCount() --> no difference.
> 
> However, interestingly, I noticed that FG starts off at midnight (in
> its  internal world time) but the time advances at a phenomenal rate.
> After a  couple of minutes I actually see the sky lighten up, followed
> by the sun  rising in the east. Sunset follows about 2 min later.
> 
> What gives ??

..a _guess_: the 32bit unix calendar ticks over sometime in 2038, 
while the 32bit Wintendo calendar ticks over every 49? days, 
I saw this given somewhere on the web as the reason Microsoft 
used (they still do?) to recommend reboots about that often.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.



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