[CamperBob2]

Another good practice is to initialize the time counters to something close to the overflow point, rather than zero. This encourages overflow bugs to show up at timescales where they will be noticed during testing, rather than after 248 days of service.

This is a scary-ass bug in a codebase that was supposed to be authored to strict professional standards.

[cpeterso]

The Linux kernel does that. The 'jiffies' counter's initial value rolls over 5 minutes after boot:

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/jiffies.h...