test: fix flaky test-regress-GH-897

test/parallel/test-regress-GH-897.js

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+'use strict';
+
+// Test for bug where a timer duration greater than 0 ms but less than 1 ms
+// resulted in the duration being set for 1000 ms. The expected behavior is
+// that the timeout would be set for 1 ms, and thus fire before timers set
+// with values greater than 1ms.
+//
+// Ref: https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/pull/897
+
+const common = require('../common');
+
+let timer;
+
+setTimeout(function() {
+  clearTimeout(timer);
+}, 0.1); // 0.1 should be treated the same as 1, not 1000...
+
+timer = setTimeout(function() {
+  common.fail('timers fired out of order');
+}, 2); // ...so this timer should fire second.