Negative value of TimeTillHiddenMs

I’m using code like this to get spawned pokemon on users location

 Pokeio.Heartbeat(function (err, hb) {
      if (err) {
        return errorHandler(err, callback);
      }

      for (let i = hb.cells.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            if (hb.cells[i].WildPokemon) {
              for (let j = 0; j < hb.cells[i].WildPokemon.length; j++) {
                  console.log(hb.cells[i].WildPokemon[j].TimeTillHiddenMs / 1000);
                }
            }
       }
});

and sometimes get negative values (like -375492.726) of TimeTillHiddenMs / 1000. What is the right way to handle them? Didn’t have opportunity to locate bug somewhere near mine location so could check what happenning in game at the moment.

[andnp]

I suppose a possible way to resolve this issue would be to provide an example for how to deal with this in example.js.

I have been dealing with it by simply providing a check in the heartbeat function like:

for (let j = 0; j < hb.cells[i].WildPokemon.length; j++) {
  if (hb.cells[i].WildPokemon[j].TimeTillHiddenMs > 0) {
    // Do something here (encounter and catch for instance)
  }
}

[WiS3]

@andnp Ok i did some testing. Catching it or not doesn’t seem to have any effect. It however changed after some minutes that i catched.

Probably it is true that those pokemon have a > 15min timer, and while it is > 15min it has a negative value. But it is strange that with a Catching bot there are problems, while in game not.