Re: integer value too large?

Alexandre Ferrieux wrote:
Funnily, [after], defined as relative-milliseconds, is currently more
geared towards long, absolute timers...
Indeed, compare the recent effort to extend the upper limit from 50
days to 500M years, with the brittleness of simple, 1-second timers
described in TIP 302:

Only on systems which can't manage clocks sanely (Hello Microsoft!) If
reliability of timer event frequency is required, get yourself a proper
operating system, use NTP to keep your system clock accurate, and make
sure your system clock is not running in localtime (in particular, you
don't want to be applying DST rules to the system clock). But given that
you're on this hobby horse, the first stage in getting *anywhere* is for
you to exhibit an implementation, preferably that passes the test suite.

Donal.
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