> Thank you very much for the phantastic povray raytracer and for the open beta
> test versions.
> 
> But why expiration dates that make life so complicated?
> 
> First, I don't like seconds of waiting before the "extend" button appears.
> 
> And even worse: Extending the expiration date of pov3.7beta25 doesn't work on
> w2k,
> it crashes with an program-error.
> 
> I don't liked to change my system date every time I start the beta.
> So I installed a tool "datecrck". Works fine...
> 

Oh dear god. This topic has been done to death for *years*. It *won't* 
change.

 > Why not simply have a message box "you use an old beta", click ok and 
 > all is fine for the next 7 days...

Because then you would run it all the time. The whole point of the 
expiration is *discouraging* people from running the beta other than 
for.. beta testing.

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