That's because people actually powered off their computer after work/leisure sessions. Someone on an unlimited night dial-up could had discovered it well before "anybody" but it's not like there was a built-in function to actually send a crash report to Redmond.
66 days + 12 hours are 5,745,600,000,000,000 ns. The log2 of this is 52.351...
Javascript and some other languages only have integer precision up to 52 bits then they switch to floating point.
Curious.
It's 32 bits of milliseconds, right? Hm, no, that would overflow much sooner (49.7 days).
It's a uint32_t of 750 Hz "jiffies", which does overflow at ~66 days.
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Bingo! Someone decided to store timestamps in float64 which has 52 bit mantissa, and the time functions break when losing precision.
Isn't 32bit counter 49 days? Assuming that one was counting milliseconds, at least.
Only remember that because that's the limit for Windows 95…
100ns intervals. My favorite part of that story is how long after Windows 95 was released before anybody discovered the bug.
That's because people actually powered off their computer after work/leisure sessions. Someone on an unlimited night dial-up could had discovered it well before "anybody" but it's not like there was a built-in function to actually send a crash report to Redmond.
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