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Author here. I appreciate your points. I started the business as a learning experience without any thought of the end game. Now that I am wiser and with some money a GmbH is the way to go for the next business.

I love how Elon just geeks out about engineering. So many sessions for software development as well.

This article hit me hard. I work in a non Silicon Valley-like company. I became a developer because I thought I love coding. But I found out that, in fact, I love problem solving. Tightly defined Scrum tasks make me sad and I would love to have more autonomy.

Original author here.

I have thought about your and other peoples comments. It could well be just rounded to the nearest integer, making my +500ms assumption wrong. However, this would result in 59.51s being displayed as 0:60, though it should be 1:00. Rounding up has the same problem.

I went through the same assumptions coding my own timer. Let's just round everything. But this resulted in 51.0s being displayed as 1:51 on the timer, with rounding up it's even worse resulting in 1:01:51. So at least hours and minutes have to be rounded down. But that makes it even more confusing that seconds are NOT Math.floor().

So in the end I "gave up" and used the date-fns package (works great) but it also rounds everything down. That's why I believe that iOS adds 500ms so the minutes and hours work properly.