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Re: Google Timer is back

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and .... it's buggy try https://www.google.com/search?q=timer+724+years click on start, looses most of the time

When would you ever need a timer for 724 years?

A bug is a bug. "Why would anyone ever do XYZ" is a separate discussion. And if you write software for a living you know that there is always that one user who will do exactly XYZ.

Re: Google Timer is back

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and .... it's buggy try https://www.google.com/search?q=timer+724+years click on start, looses most of the time

Some kind of overflow, it resets timer to 40 hours. Same thing happens with 1 year, except timer is reset to 60 hours. Another interesting observation is that "timer 723 years" did not bring timer up, but "timer 722 years" did.

Update: "timer 100 hours" works, but "timer 101 hours" does not. That is 100 hours is 144,000 seconds, does not seem to be anything special about this number.

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