[yetihehe]

This bites you in the ass in embedded devices, which then have strange behaviours every 49 days.

[sgerenser]

Experienced this first hand on an embedded device with an RTOS with a 5ms tick. The thing was locking up every 124 days (2^31 ticks). That’s long enough where it had to happen 2-3 times before someone put 2 and 2 together.