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Comment by oasisaimlessly

4 hours ago

It's a uint32_t of 750 Hz "jiffies", which does overflow at ~66 days.

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userbinator  2 hours ago

While that seems like a convincing explanation, 750Hz is a rather odd value to use for a timer, and more importantly the overflow would be at 66d6h43m43s instead of the reported ~66d12h.

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