Process flow wait activity usage

Hi all,
I'm having some issues while trying to use the wait activity on a process flow...
I have a simple process flow:
START ---> WAIT ---> END
the parameter MINIMUM_DELAY on the wait activity is set to 10 and the UNTIL_DATE parameter was left blank.
The following error occurs when I try to execute the process flow:
ORA-01867: the interval is invalid
ORA-06512: at "OWBSYS.WB_RT_CONVERSIONS", line 371
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error string
ORA-06512: at line 3
I'm I doing this right? Any help would be much appreciated...
Best regards

Anyone modifying this should be very careful. We have had problems in some mappings that use the TO_CHAR function to convert a date to the Day number in week, and that varies from region to region.
If you change the language that the Control Center Service is invoked under, you also change the regional settings (NLS_LANGUAGE and NLS_TERRITORY, etc.).
A better solution I think would be to add a preprocess mapping that executes an ALTER SESSION SET NLS_LANGUAGE = ... and ALTER SESSION SET NLS_TERRITORY=....
I do not have the possibility of testing this, but that is what I would see as the correct way forward (and not changing the way the control center is invoked).
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