# Um...that was weird. 349 seconds?

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**Created:** [November 1, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-that-was-weird-349-seconds/424889 "2007-11-01T16:52:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-that-was-weird-349-seconds/424889/1 "2007-11-01T16:52:27Z")

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Ok, so I just hit “new posts”. It says

“This forum requires you wait 120 seconds between searches. You have 349 seconds before you can perform your next search.”

(I forget the exact wording.) But huh?

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-that-was-weird-349-seconds/424889/2 "2007-11-01T16:54:52Z")

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I just got: “This forum requires that you wait 120 seconds before submitting another search. You have 179 seconds to wait before another search will be allowed.”

Huh?, indeed. Maybe the hamsters started counting in base 32 or something…

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-that-was-weird-349-seconds/424889/3 "2007-11-01T16:58:57Z")

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Hamsters be smarter than me.

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-that-was-weird-349-seconds/424889/4 "2007-11-01T17:08:18Z")

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[QUOTE=Anaamika]  
Hamsters be smarter than me.  
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:smack: And me too, of course. A higher than expected number would be in a smaller base, not a larger one. Duh.

So maybe they’re in base 5 today. 120 seconds in base 5 would be 440…

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**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-that-was-weird-349-seconds/424889/5 "2007-11-01T17:13:07Z")

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Worked fine for me. I think the more likely explanation is that either **jerry** was playing with the search time limits without changing the text description or the server had a snafu when checking the [screwy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=442300) [clock](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=439977).

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**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-that-was-weird-349-seconds/424889/6 "2007-11-01T17:15:35Z")

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[QUOTE=Anaamika]

(I forget the exact wording.) But huh?  
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You find glitches in the Board weird? Hmmm…  
😃