Time Machine Pink and White Labels

I just took a look at my Time Machine that I set up way back in Leopard (OS X 10.5), and now when I see the space flythrough, the date labels on the right side of the screen are pink! There's also a few white labels, clustered near the latest backups. Is this a bug, or a feature? I can't find any mention of it in the documentation, and I can't tell why the heck they would change the labels to pink! (They're pretty hard to read against the pink galaxy background)
Can anybody deduce what a pink date label on the right-hand side of Time Machine is supposed to mean? Also, a few of the white labels are a bit more transparent than others; I swear their color coding makes no sense.

peppermint wrote:
all right pondini, thx.
i just wondered why the labels are all pink, and last week, nothing happened
as i clicked on the TM icon in the dock, it wont start.
Hard to tell, now, since it's working.  If it ever stops working again, see #E4 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
i use a internal 2TB drive as TM backup (500GB are free) from my other internal SSD and HD´s
in my MacPro, so its no external drive. the backups are exactly 2 years old.
Sorry, I didn't notice that you were on a Mac Pro. 
Did you recently upgrade from Leopard or Snow Leopard?  If so, that's the difference.   Backups on Leopard and Snow Leopard are shown in white.
Effective with Lion, they're shown in pink.  The reason is, effective with Lion, Local Snapshots are also made (on laptops only), so Apple changed the color of regular backups to pink, and shows Local Snapshots in white.

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