We're all earthlings here :P Maybe someone past the orion nebula uses programs for intergalactic journeys. I heard the aliens who crashed in Roswel, NM had watches that registered billions of years. :P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Whilst testing to find the upper limits of time/hour (for an up-time > monitoring script) > I came across these anomalies in time! > > Can anyone explain what is happening here? > How come some large numbers for hours give an error and others > return bizare numbers? > > x: 2000:10:12 > == 2000:10:12 > >> x: 200000:10:12 > == 200000:10:12 > >> x: 2000000:10:12 > ** Syntax Error: Invalid time -- 2000000:10:12. > ** Where: (line 1) x: 2000000:10:12 > >> x: 2000000:10:12 > ** Syntax Error: Invalid time -- 2000000:10:12. > ** Where: (line 1) x: 2000000:10:12 > >> x: 20000000:10:12 > ** Syntax Error: Invalid time -- 20000000:10:12. > ** Where: (line 1) x: 20000000:10:12 > >> x: 200000000:10:12 > ** Syntax Error: Invalid time -- 200000000:10:12. > ** Where: (line 1) x: 200000000:10:12 > >> x: 2000000000:10:12 > ** Syntax Error: Invalid time -- 2000000000:10:12. > ** Where: (line 1) x: 2000000000:10:12 > >> x: 20000000000:10:12 > == -231041:32:12 > >> x: 200000000000:10:12 > == 75676:02:44 > >> x: 2000000000000:10:12 > == -436287:32:44 > >> x: 20000000000000:10:12 > == 409308:53:56 > > Cheers, > > Allen K