His heart began to tap a nervous rhythm. He opened the "About" screen. There it was, in cold, digital honesty:
He blinked. He had installed the trial at 3 PM yesterday. It was now 2 AM. That was 11 hours. Not 47. crystal reports trial version
He had 47 hours of usage left. But he only had 7 real hours until the deadline. His heart began to tap a nervous rhythm
No. The math was wrong. Unless… the trial wasn't counting real hours. It was counting working hours. The hours the application was open and active. The 23 hours he had spent wrestling with subreports. The 4 hours of staring at the "Group Expert" in despair. The cumulative sum of his life force poured into this single file. He had installed the trial at 3 PM yesterday
The red dialog box returned.
He had been wrong. The trial wasn't crippled by missing features. It was crippled by time .