getTime() Accuracy

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Wow, that's really far off. Do you have more than one Pico and they both experience the same issue?

Can you try shorting B3 and B4 and:
```
analogWrite(B3,0.5,{freq:0.5});
setWatch(function(e) {
  print(e.time - e.lastTime);
}, B4, {repeat:true});
```
Any two pins should work. That'll compare the internal RC oscillator with the high speed oscillator. I just tried on one running 2v01 and it returns numbers roughly around 1.01, so that's 1% off. In a minute you might expect half a second.

One fix is definitely to add an external oscillator. I guess the other is a firmware change to ignore the RC oscillator completely, but that would then mean deep sleep doesn't work. Would that be an issue for you?

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