* Asif Iqbal <iqbala@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2004-01-02 08:23 -0500]: > Actually on my Sun Enterprise 420R (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz) the > highest I can do is 2**15-1 (32767) secs which is only 9 hours Same here with FreeBSD 4.9 (with 32 bit ints), bigger values give me an 'illegal value'. But I must admit, I normally use 300, so this does not disturb me. Nicols