https://wicg.github.io/BackgroundSync/spec/PeriodicBackgroundSync-index.html#constants defines "minimum periodic sync interval for any origin" and "minimum periodic sync interval across origins" as "long long"s, and then they're used as "Wait for minimum periodic sync interval across origins.". One can't wait for a long long; one waits for that number of milliseconds. So the constants could be defined as "a long long number of milliseconds" or, since they're never actually exposed to JS as far as I can tell, they could just be defined as "a time interval".