I don't understand your argument. What's special about a days/weeks that would prevent you from shortening this value for your tests? In other words, if I want

I don't understand your argument. What's special about a days/weeks that would prevent you from shortening this value for your tests? In other words, if I want to test my timeout logic, it should be independent of the timeout value, so I should be free to use a shorter timeout value in my timeout tests.