I built a redstone block piston-timer as shown in the first picture, and without any repeaters, when you leave the chunk with it active, the redstone block will disappear, but the timer will keep working.
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I do recall something like this a bit
As much as I like this bug, I admit
Searching is quite fun
And not what you've done
Therefore I declare this a duplicate
(MC-5774)