[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#584862: Running scripts in rcS.d/ took [negative two thousand+] seconds.

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

PR> Hehe.  Is it a really bad hardware clock on this machine?

Hmmm, indeed that isolated machine has drifted about
$ expr 28000 / 60 / 60
7
hours, at least that is what the timestamps on some USB files it wrote
were...

PR> The code get the time at the start and and the end and subtract it,
PR> and if the internal clock is correct in this period, it report the
PR> duration.

Anyway, you had very much better independently count, and not depend on
something that gets reset halfway through the process!!