Paul Bijnens wrote:

especially conffile.c, line 2360 or about (in 2.4.4p4).

Following up to myself, because I forgot the conclusion:

It is absolute time:

   2360 static int get_time()
   2361 {
   2362     time_t st = start_time.r.tv_sec;
   2363     struct tm *stm;
   2364     int hhmm;
   2365
   2366     get_conftoken(INT);
   2367     hhmm = tokenval.i;
   2368
   2369     stm = localtime(&st);
   2370     st -= stm->tm_sec + 60 * (stm->tm_min + 60 * stm->tm_hour);
   2371     st += ((hhmm/100*60) + hhmm%100)*60;
   2372
   2373     if (st-start_time.r.tv_sec<-43200)
   2374         st += 86400;
   2375
   2376     return st;
   2377 }

Line 2370 calculates midnight.
Line 2371 adds the hhmm, resulting in absolute time.


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