-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB4Pv3lhWtxOxWNFcRAv4dAJ9bi/uzFRfOSs8F29pMuGmxbF7w3gCfXzc2 u7Txk+VAF4Mxh6jCRO8Tot8= =cZiW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
