[Nut-upsuser] Bogus "UPS not available" messages

[Eric S. Raymond]

Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
> There's a slim possibility that the timestamp could be useful in the
> upsc output, especially with drivers that have to cope with buggy
> hardware that does not always respond in the same time interval.

That's exactly the case I was thinking about; I'm coping with it now.
 
> However, it's another one of those "where do we stop" cases. If I
> recall correctly, the newhidups/usbhid-ups driver receives some events
> asynchronously, so some events reported in the output of upsc are
> older than others.

*That* driver shouldn't report a timestamp, then.  It would be misleading.
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