negative millisecs?

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hi

i hve a problem with millisecs().I did this
graphics 800,600,0

while not keydown(1)
cls
ms=millisecs()
drawtext ms,0,0
flip
wend 

so i got numbers like -1043464591.
how is that possible? I think millisecs is the time since the startup?