Yellow->red escalation, bug or feature?

You're saying yellow for an hour and red for a few seconds triggers
like it was red for an hour?

I note that the previous example was for a custom test but I also have
seen this for the disk test:
(set to email  every 8 hours when yellow)


Sat Dec 24 10:53:27 2011 	red 	0:49:09
Sun Dec 18 03:01:51 2011 	yellow 	6 days 7:51:36

Thu Dec 22 17:54:39 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33)
user-e49400df80ec@xymon.invalid[139] 1324594479 100
Fri Dec 23 01:54:40 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33)
user-e49400df80ec@xymon.invalid[139] 1324623280 100
Fri Dec 23 09:54:47 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33)
user-e49400df80ec@xymon.invalid[139] 1324652087 100
Sat Dec 24 10:54:27 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33)
user-e49400df80ec@xymon.invalid[139] 1324742067 100
Sat Dec 24 10:54:27 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33)
alert1[149] 1324742067 100
Sat Dec 24 10:54:27 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33)
alert2[152] 1324742067 100
Sat Dec 24 10:54:27 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33)
alert3[153] 1324742067 100
Sat Dec 24 10:54:27 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33)
alert4[154] 1324742067 100