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That’s not automatically bad. There are two kinds of Hungarian notation: systems Hungarian, which duplicates information that the type system should be tracking; and apps Hungarian, which encodes information you’d express in types if your language’s type system were expressive enough. [1] goes into the difference.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...

And this is exactly the kind the language should have a type for, Duration.
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