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     Re: RE: KityMail   
     By: Marceline Jones to THOMAS KLOOS on Sun Mar 07 2021 18:06:00   
      
      
    MJ> According to him 25 years and 6 months equates to a 2970 seconds   
    MJ> unregistered delay.   
      
   no, that is incorrect... that's not "according to him"... that's a defect in   
   the program from using too small a variable type to store the number of   
   seconds in... effectively what you are seeing is modulo arithmetic also known   
   as rollover where the counter rolls over to the lowest end of the range when   
   the value exceeds the maximum value...   
      
   |===================================================================|   
   |Type      Range                                       Size in bytes|   
   |===================================================================|   
   |Byte                         0 .. 255                             1|   
   |Shortint                  -128 .. 127                             1|   
   |Smallint                -32768 .. 32767                           2|   
   |Word                         0 .. 65535                           2|   
   |Integer            either smallint or longint           size 2 or 4|   
   |Cardinal                    longword                              4|   
   |Longint            -2147483648 .. 2147483647                      4|   
   |Longword                     0 .. 4294967295                      4|   
   |Int64     -9223372036854775808 .. 9223372036854775807             8|   
   |QWord                        0 .. 18446744073709551615            8|   
   |===================================================================|   
      
   back when the program was written Longword, Int64, and QWord likely did not   
   exist... Byte and Word were the only numerical entities with no negative   
   capabilities...   
      
   in short, it is simply numeric rollover due to using too small a variable type   
   for the number being stored...   
      
      
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