Comment by tpmx
6 years ago
It was 49.7 days for Windows 95:
https://sites.google.com/site/edmarkovich2/whywindows95andwi...
Still, it's remarkable that two separate Seattle-based companies have produced a similarly short time bomb on very expensive and highly visible product development projects.
This wasn't noticed for a few years after Win95 was released.
The joke was that nobody had ever had a Win95 system stay up for 49 days. Mwah-hah-hah.
GetTickCount is a monotonic timestamps still supported in Windows 10, available for any application to use. These days, you should use GetTickCount64, but any application that doesn't handle the rollover of GetTickCount is buggy.