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Comment by loeg

12 hours ago

No, because prod doesn't have hardcoded cookies baked into it?

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AndrewDucker  12 hours ago

If you always test with a date of 1/1/2000 then you don't know that your choice fails in 2039.

  • vocx2tx  11 hours ago

    These fake-time environments let you set the time, so you can test how the code will behave in 2039 without waiting for 13 years. For Go's synctest, 1-1-2000 is just the default initial value for now().

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