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Documentation Duplicacy

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Open the Usage section of the jsonwebtoken documentation and compare the expiresIn and notBefore descriptions. Confirm whether the repeated wording is unintended, then remove or correct the duplicate so each option is documented once and the Usage section is consistent.

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As i was going through the jsonwebtoken documentation , i saw that there is a part which is repeated twice , This is present in the Usage where its telling about expiresIn and not-before part , I found that part is repeated twice is it a typo error or its right ?

expiresIn: expressed in seconds or a string describing a time span vercel/ms.
Eg: 60, "2 days", "10h", "7d". A numeric value is interpreted as a seconds count. If you use a string be sure you provide the time units (days, hours, etc), otherwise milliseconds unit is used by default ("120" is equal to "120ms").

notBefore: expressed in seconds or a string describing a time span vercel/ms.
Eg: 60, "2 days", "10h", "7d". A numeric value is interpreted as a seconds count. If you use a string be sure you provide the time units (days, hours, etc), otherwise milliseconds unit is used by default ("120" is equal to "120ms").

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