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test: ban wall-clock readings in tests#22562

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Problem

Tests asserted "finishes within N ms" with performance.now(), or built fixtures from Date.now(). Elapsed-time assertions pass or fail with runner load; live timestamps make fixtures drift.

Fix

  • New rule t3code/no-wall-clock-in-tests: flags performance.now(), process.hrtime, Date.now(), and zero-arg new Date() outside vi.spyOn/vi.setSystemTime/mock arguments.
  • 33 sites in 19 files: timing assertions dropped (the behavioral assertion next to them stays), fixtures use fixed epochs, fake-clock seeds are constants. Two suppressions on the env-gated recovery benchmark.

Part of the anti-flake stack (#22563). Context: main was red in ~600 of ~2,900 runs since September; the genuinely flaky tests all waited on real time, scheduler budgets, or renderer frames. These rules make those tests fail lint instead of CI.

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oxlint-plugin-t3code/rules/no-wall-clock-in-tests.tsline 31Outdated · 2c7b703Open thread
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28+ if (Option.isNone(expression)) return Option.none();
29+ if (expression.value.type === "Identifier") return Option.some([expression.value.name]);
30+ if (expression.value.type !== "MemberExpression") return Option.none();
31+ const property = getPropertyName(expression.value.property);
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🟢 Low rules/no-wall-clock-in-tests.ts:31

Date[now]("2026-01-01") is reported as a wall-clock read even when now is `

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JJulius Marminge3d ago

Fixed: a computed member with a non-literal key (Date[now]) is no longer treated as a wall-clock read; Date["now"] still is. Covered by a rule test.

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Verdict: Approved at 595c604

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This PR makes tests deterministic by removing live wall-clock reads and adds a tested oxlint rule to prevent them from returning. The changes are limited to test code and development/CI lint tooling, with no shipped product behavior or defaults affected.

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The PR adds and enables an Oxlint rule that detects wall-clock reads in test files. Several server, mobile, and web tests now use fixed timestamps or a mocked clock.

Changes: Test clock determinism

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Wall-clock rule and lint integration
oxlint-plugin-t3code/rules/no-wall-clock-in-tests.ts, oxlint-plugin-t3code/rules/no-wall-clock-in-tests.test.ts, oxlint-plugin-t3code/index.ts, vite.config.ts		The Oxlint plugin adds and registers a rule that reports wall-clock reads in test files, with exemptions for reads used in mocking calls. Rule tests cover permitted and prohibited cases. The lint configuration enables the rule at error severity.
Fixed test timestamps and clock values
apps/server/src/serverRuntimeState.test.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/home/useThreadListActions.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/onboarding/WelcomeWizard.import.browser.test.tsx, apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadActions.undo.test.ts		These tests replace runtime-derived timestamps with fixed values. The web onboarding test also mocks Date.now() to return its fixed timestamp.

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oxlint-plugin-t3code/rules/no-wall-clock-in-tests.ts: 1

56-71: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Rule exempts any wall-clock read nested anywhere inside a mocking call.

isMockArgument walks all ancestors. A read that sits inside any vi.fn(...), vi.spyOn(...), or .mockImplementation(...) call is allowed, even when the read measures elapsed time. Example: vi.fn(() => { const t = performance.now(); ...; assert(performance.now() - t < 10) }). The rule is a lint guard, so false negatives are low impact. Narrow the walk if you want stricter enforcement, for example stop at the first enclosing function that is not the direct mock argument. [recommended_refactor]

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JJulius Marminge3d ago

Re CodeRabbit's nitpick on isMockArgument: leaving as is. A wall-clock read inside a mock implementation is the mock faking a clock, which is the one place the rule must allow; a timing assertion inside a vi.fn body is contrived and would be caught in review. Narrowing the walk would start flagging the vi.spyOn(Date, "now").mockImplementation(() => performance.now()) shape that the fixed tests rely on.

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apps/web/src/components/onboarding/WelcomeWizard.import.browser.test.tsxline 234Outdated · 895ffdbOpen thread
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228231
229232// The mocked modules read `state`, so every test starts by replacing all of it.
230233function setup() {
234+ vi.spyOn(Date, "now").mockReturnValue(NOW);
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the Date.now spy after each test.

setup() installs a fixed Date.now() result, and both tests call setup(). No local cleanup or applicable Vitest configuration restores the spy. A later same-worker test can therefore receive the fixed NOW value instead of the real clock.

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1-import { expect, it, vi } from "vite-plus/test";
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4+afterEach(() => {
5+ vi.restoreAllMocks();
6+});
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JJulius Marminge3d ago

Fixed: setup() returns the spy and both tests hold it with using, so it is restored when each test ends.

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apps/mobile/src/features/home/useThreadListActions.test.tslines 394–395Outdated · 895ffdbOpen thread
……@@ -391,7 +391,8 @@ describe("thread action undo", () => {
393393 await readThreadUndoNotice()!.undo();
394- const restoresSnooze = snoozedUntil != null && Date.parse(snoozedUntil) > Date.now();
394+ // 2099 is the unexpired case; 2000 has long passed.
395+ const restoresSnooze = snoozedUntil === "2099-01-01T09:00:00.000Z";
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use a clock-relative expectation for the snooze fixture.

The test now treats 2099-01-01T09:00:00.000Z as active for every system date. The production executor instead skips the snooze when Date.parse(step.snoozedUntil) <= Date.now(). When the test runs with the clock at or after 2099, correct production behavior will omit the snooze, but this assertion will still expect it.

Set a fixed system clock for the test or derive the fixture and expectation relative to the mocked clock.

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JJulius Marminge3d ago

Leaving as is. The table's fixture dates are 2000 and 2099; the test runs correctly for the next 73 years, and pinning the system clock here would add a second time source to a test whose point is that it no longer reads one.

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@juliusmarminge Thanks for the guidance. The 2000 and 2099 fixtures cover the intended cases without a mocked clock. My concern about the 2099 boundary is not actionable here, so I withdraw the finding.

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2Repo: pingdotgg/t3code PR: 22562
3File: apps/mobile/src/features/home/useThreadListActions.test.ts:394-395
4Timestamp: 2026-10-21T00:59:30.003Z
5Learning: In apps/mobile/src/features/home/useThreadListActions.test.ts, the unpin undo test intentionally uses fixed 2000 and 2099 snooze fixtures for expired and unexpired cases. Do not request a mocked system clock solely to address the eventual 2099 boundary; the maintainer accepts that horizon and prefers avoiding additional clock setup.

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Added 4 commits

  • test(mobile): the unpin-undo table decides the snooze case from its literal, not Date.now()b55b277
  • test(lint): a computed member with a variable key is not a wall-clock readcbb364f
  • test: ban wall-clock readings in testsf9f829e
  • test(web): the wizard import tests dispose their Date.now spy595c604