A timer can only fire on a frame. It fires on the first frame past each due time, so Time.time at that moment is the due time plus up to one frame. On a display that is not exactly 60 Hz this delay creeps up by a millisecond every few seconds and falls back to zero once it reaches a whole frame. The issue saw 82.009 after 82 ticks. The timer itself does not drift, it keeps the remainder when it fires. - On timer gets a number output late. It is what is left of the timer's clock after taking one interval, so time - late is exactly the due time. - When one long frame catches up several ticks, each gets its own late. The first one was due longest ago and is the latest. Tests: - New unit test in behavior-events: late 0.125 after a frame past 1.0 s, 0 on the dot, 1.5 and 0.5 for two ticks caught up in one frame. - Counter-check: late taken before the interval is subtracted fails exactly that test. Original restored with cmp. - ./check.sh: 156 files, 2300 tests, CHECK EXIT 0 (was 2299). - No e2e change. The e2e modules only wire the exec of On timer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>