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mdemare
on Jan 24, 2023
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Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks
Only if you use seconds, unlike the JVM which uses milliseconds.
yetihehe
on Jan 24, 2023
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This bites you in the ass in embedded devices, which then have strange behaviours every 49 days.
sgerenser
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Experienced this first hand on an embedded device with an RTOS with a 5ms tick. The thing was locking up every 124 days (2^31 ticks). That’s long enough where it had to happen 2-3 times before someone put 2 and 2 together.
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