> When that happens next time, please show the exact value of the > relevant timer as a Lisp data structure. (You should be able to find > it in the variable timer-list.) Also, show the value returned by the > function current-time at that point. Ok, will do if it happens again. I don't know what triggers it, because it happens only occasionally. The strange thing is it would be a logical explanation that emacs substracts the new time from the timer and it makes it go negative (though I haven't  checked how it is implemented), but usually only one of the timers go  negative, not all of them, so the bug does not affect all timers when it  happens.