"Carsten Haese" <carsten@uniqsys.com> wrote in message
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> Both examples are less than 1440, and 86400 exceeds the maximum that a
> smallint can't contain ...

Er, this is an oxymoron. There isn't a maximum value that something *can't*
contain.