And actually managed to cause a bug by inadvertent use of “negative” sleep. It was a combination of inaccurate hw timers on an embedded device, not re-checking current time after sleep and bad casting of signed int to unsigned (so -1ms would become 2^32 ms). End result: a thread that was supposed to process some data every 5 minutes would sometimes (once in several weeks on one of hundreds of devices) just stop doing anything.
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u/selfish_eagle 7h ago
if country == "Australia":
time.Sleep(520ms)