I wrote the following bug report, and got the accompanying response:

<<Bugs item #584421, was opened at 2002-07-21 01:20
You can respond by visiting:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=411192&aid=584421&group_id=34373

Category: Special pages
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Zoe C (zoec)
Assigned to: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker)
Summary: Recent Changes for (x) days

Initial Comment:
When I request Recent Changes for (x) days, I can't
get past "diff) (hist) . . Theophylline; 23:38 . . Kpjas
(more) ", no matter how many days back I ask.

If I ask for 500 Recent Changes, it goes beyond this
point with no problem.


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>Comment By: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker)
Date: 2002-07-23 21:45

Message:
Logged In: YES
user_id=3076

This was a problem only on the test server, after restoring
from an old database dump.>>

But the response isn't true.  I still can't get "view the last (x) days" to work.

Zoe