Why does htop display an exclamation mark next to uptime?

I keep getting the exclamation mark in htop next to the uptime and always wondered why it’s there. According to this mailing list post it’s a little easter egg in UptimeMeter.c:

35 char daysbuf[15];
36 if (days > 100) {
37 sprintf(daysbuf, “%d days(!), “, days);
38 [...]

Server Benchmarking Diary – Debian, Apache 2 and MySQL

This blog took nearly 7 thousand hits yesterday. At its peak, it took 1.8 thousand an hour. That’s a decent amount of traffic. This was all brought about when I submitted a link to reddit.com regarding a way to crash Google Chrome instantly. Coincidentally, I had spent an hour or so the night before testing [...]