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  1. May 29th, 2001, 03:24 AM #1
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    gettickcount() bug?

    I have this proxy server running on Windows 98 for months now, and when I tried running a API call from this example: http://www.vbworld.com/api/winapi/index3.html I seem to get negative numbers. Is it because Windows is not designed to run that long?
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  2. May 29th, 2001, 05:28 AM #2
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    The elapsed time is stored as a DWORD value. Therefore, the time will wrap around to zero if the system is run continuously for 49.7 days.
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  3. May 29th, 2001, 02:08 PM #3
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    DWORD is unsigned, however, VB's Long is signed, meaning that when you get past 2 billion (half the range) it wraps round to the most negative number.
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