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bufferoverflow ◴[19 Oct 24 06:15 UTC] No.41885979[source]▶
setTimeout is stranger than you think.

We recently had a failed unit test because setTimeout(fn, 1000) triggered at 999ms. That test had ran more than a hundred times before just fine. Till one day it didn't.

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1. jonathanlydall ◴[19 Oct 24 06:17 UTC] No.41885984[source]▶
Interesting.

Maybe the system clock did a network time synchronisation during the setTimeout window.