Can someone please tell me why this got downvoted? It's particularly annoying when correcting common misconceptions to get penalised for it... (and if what I said was wrong, I'd also like to know why!)
Yes, upon rereading I see that, too. When I first read it, I understood in such a way that it only would work until (a timestamp of) 65535 ticks since device-startup had passed, but he was referring to durations of that length.