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> but maybe someone here can view source and figure out why they made that decision?

Chances are it's a classic case of choosing a register size such that the time counter wraps around at 86,400 seconds, and to avoid this, they would have to explicitly include days -- and chose not to.

Try this: http://requirebin.com/embed?gist=6668018

I'm guessing they decided they had to put a limit somewhere to ensure nothing broke, and decided arbitrarily on that.

Well, you can set the timer to 99 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds if you type in the values, so it doesn't seem to make sense that 23:59:60 would break it. I'm really curious as to why that happens.

it looks like some default limits are in place for this. Here's what I found:

Max for seconds: 999 Max for minutes: 999 Max for hours: 23

it's times like these where I wish they still had the "Beta" in their logo.. turns out "timer for 23 hours 99 minutes" breaks it too :P

more testing google.. more testing