Fellow Monks,

I am recording the system uptime of my machine with a script shown below. By the time it is up for 49 days and 22 hours. Windows (XP) tells me so and a few other programs, too. Since this morning my Perl Script tells me:

Uptime: 0 days, 5 hours

The machine definitely did not reboot. So what is wrong with Win32::GetTickCount()?

Of course, there is another script which parses the milliseconds in days, hours, etc. But the main point is that the value of Win32::GetTickCount() seems to overswap or seems to do something else in a way.

Has anyone an idea? Thanks :)

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Here's the script:

#!C:/Perl/bin/perl

use strict;
use Win32;
use XML::Simple;

my ($uptime, $xml, $lastupdate);

while (1)
{
    $uptime = Win32::GetTickCount();
    $xml = XMLin("reg.xml", 'searchpath' => ['C:/Programme/Apache Grou
+p/Apache/cgi-bin/uptime'], 'noattr' => 1);
    $xml->{'uptime'} = $uptime;
    if ($uptime > $xml->{'record'})
    {
        $xml->{'record'} = $uptime;
    }
    $lastupdate = time();
    $xml->{'lastupdate'} = $lastupdate;
    XMLout($xml, 'outputfile' => 'C:/Programme/Apache Group/Apache/cgi
+-bin/uptime/reg.xml', 'noattr' => 1);
    sleep(600);
}

exit;
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BioHazard

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reading between the lines is my real pleasure