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@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ file does, and it is the authority when they disagree. The most useful starting
         `set_interval`. Full reasoning, including why `set_interval` costs more below 500 ms:
         https://developers.esphome.io/architecture/components/advanced/#quick-rule-of-thumb
     *   **Repeating work:** use `set_interval`, never a `set_timeout` that re-arms itself; every re-arm
-        allocates a new scheduler item.
+        rebuilds the callback and re-queues a scheduler item, and the period drifts.
     *   **Scheduler ids:** name a timer only when it must be cancelled or replaced, and use a
         `static constexpr uint32_t` id, never a string. Ids are per component instance and cannot clash with other
         components, so number them from 0 and keep all of a component's ids together in one place.