Forking mainnet in hardhat and block number

[viktorcortess]

Hello. Last days I'm trying to check how my project would work with block from the past. And I decided to check the blocknumber that I have forking mainnet in Hardhat. As I see in docs hardhat forks the latest block. But what I received:

const provider = new ethers.providers.JsonRpcProvider("https://mainnet.infura.io/v3/%22);

const { ethers } = require("hardhat")

block = await provider.getBlockNumber()

16034315 from provider.getBlockNumber //current block from provider

block = await ethers.provider.getBlockNumber()
16034309 from ethers.provider.getBlockNumber // minus 6 blocks from forked mainnet

And if I understand it correctlyethers.provider.getBlockNumber() shows a forking mainnet.
Why do I have this difference in 6 blocks if I didn't pin a block from the past?

[ricmoo]

This is probable a question for the hardhat team... Sorry I can't help more.