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Comment by SeanAnderson | Hacker News Reader

This is platform-specific, right? Chromium corrects for drift (https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...)

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I wish that was true but you can easily see it drifting in Chrome

        let lastms 
        function tick() {
            if (lastms === undefined)
                lastms = new Date().getMilliseconds()
            else if (lastms !== new Date().getMilliseconds()) 
                throw new Error('Drifted')
        }
        setInterval(tick, 1000)

It's only drift if the error grows over time. You need to look at the sum of the offsets.

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