Just to add my two cents, I had a Linux box up and running for 457 days
lately. Didn't show any alarming symptom. And no, it didn't crash then.
I just rebooted it myself.
> > > Isn't there something similar in Linux? Except the limit is a bit over a
> > > year?
> > A bit more than that. The date rolls over in 2038 on 32 bit unices.
> Wrong limit. There's a counter in some MS-written systems (which includes
> OS/2, as I recall) that counts milliseconds since the computer booted.
> Since it's a 32-bit counter, it rolls over in about 49 days. Nasty things
> can (but don't necessarily) happen when it rolls over. ISTR that there is
> a similar counter in Linux that rolls over in about 400 days, but I've
> been having trouble remembering things lately.
Cheers. Bye.
Ph. A.
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