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"textContent": "toc:\n\n> Granted that logic is still iffy for `Instant::MIN` on devices which zero their timers to boot up (but that's probably fine).\n\nThis is not a niche thing -- `CLOCK_MONOTONIC` is counted from boot time on Linux and probably many others. But for the 1 second delay in this example, I agree it's probably fine.\n\nAnother quirk of `MIN` is that this could be **far** in the past, e.g. on Unix targets that use `tv_sec: i64`, versus Windows with unsigned `Instant(Duration)`. So the range of `Instant::MIN.elapsed()` could be wildly different!",
"title": "`Instant::PAST_VALUE` constant?"
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