[IP] Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up
Begin forwarded message:
From: Eric Ulevik <eulevik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 28, 2004 8:57:10 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up
Reply-To: Eric Ulevik <eulevik@xxxxxxxxx>
The 49.7 day expiry sounds like rollover of the number of milliseconds
since boot, as returned by the Windows API GetTickCount(). This is a
problem in the application software, rather than the operating system.
On the other hand, in the early 90's using GetTickCount() was
recommended. Dealing with rollover was tricky - we incorporated code
from Microsoft into our financial software to handle rollover
correctly.
Regards,
Eric Ulevik
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