Drone move timer reset

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I had just finished a portal with my drone and was watching the cool down. It said 8 minutes and change, so I knew I had a little bit of time to get a drink even though this was going to cross 12:00. When I came back, the timer had been reset to a much higher value. Since coming into the event I could not have scheduled a drone refresh that suddenly dropped to zero, I find this to be problematic. The published cool down should have expired normally, and then the drone should have scheduled a normal refresh cycle. This is obviously an error, but it looks like it took some specific programming to accomplish because of how the time got reset.
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This was already reported over a year ago, but the concensus was that while it's a really weird design choice, it's probably intended. At the very least, Niantic never changed it.