Not really a suitable fix.

@juddisjudd Do you think we can remove this check outright now? It was there to cover for some edge cases where jobs were incorrectly scheduled.

Not really a suitable fix.

@juddisjudd Do you think we can remove this check outright now? It was there to cover for some edge cases where jobs were incorrectly scheduled.

I will take a look and see what would be best for this.

@thelindat I think maybe this would be a better approach:
Add a maxDelay option:
---@field maxDelay? number Maximum allowed delay in seconds before skipping (default: 0)

if sleep < 0 then
    if not self.maxDelay or -sleep > self.maxDelay then
        return self:stop(self.debug and ('scheduled time expired %s seconds ago'):format(-sleep))
    end
    
    if self.debug then
        print(('Task %s is delayed by %s seconds, executing now'):format(self.id, -sleep))
    end
    
    sleep = 0
end

Example usage then setting something like this:
maxDelay = 30 for a 30 second grace period or something

Sure we can go with that, maybe default to 1 second.

While we're at it, it would be good to swap to lib.print.debug and default debug to true if printLevel is set to debug. See #593

@st860923 would you like to update your PR with my suggestion or would you prefer that I do this?

You can proceed with your suggested approach. Thank you!