Today I learned:

[theweaselking]

TIL: The Windows "shutdown" command's custom timeout feature - letting you set how soon you'd like to execute the shutdown or reboot - has an upper limit of 315360000 seconds.

Ten years.

You can schedule a reboot on a Windows machine for "ten years from now, to the second".

Today's challenge: Find a good reason to want to do that.

(Source: start -> cmd -> "shutdown /?")

Comments

[pappy-legba.livejournal.com]

I have no idea of the application, but once you do find it, I am sure of one thing: you need to recline back in your chair, temple your fingers and do your best evil grin.

[being-here.livejournal.com]

Is "because you can" a good reason? Or am I just a bad person?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The window perpetually displaying on the desktop that says "Warning! This machine will reboot in 9 years, 8 months, 4 days" would probably get annoying. And, of course, that assumes that the machine will never need a reboot for any other reason and will still be working, hardware-wise in 10 years and still in use.

All of these are not good assumptions.

[being-here.livejournal.com]

Ah. I assumed you would do it to someone else. Someone who deserved that sort of thing. (Like I said. Bad person.)

Though I agree. The chance of a computer being around and working for that long is highly unlikely.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

My last computer—admittedly, not Windows—lasted me over 10 years, and was running without upgrades and with a cracked screen.

I expect this machine I'm typing on to be around at least 10 years from now; I could go get the other one and power it up if I wanted, but it's kind of retired now.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I've seen computers last that long. It's not all that hard, really, assuming you don't lose a chunk of hardware.

I've *never* seen a computer last that long *without a reboot*.

I've especially never seen a WINDOWS computer last that long without a reboot - if nothing else, your no-reboot computer had better not have a network connection of any sort.

[captainweasel.livejournal.com]

To convince a small child of your magic powers.