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Norman Vine schrieb:
>>..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.
> 
> 
> This is true a naive Win32 clock running of of timeGetTime() 
> rolls over every 49 days but there are ways to prevent this
> although I don't believe the FlightGear clock on Windows checks
> for this.

That was a problem on Win95 (dunno if it was fixed till WinME). But on
the WinNT series (incl. Win2000 and WinXP) it was never an issue.

CU,
Christian
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