boot.plist timeout countdown NOT accurate

[macnb]

Has been reported many times on these forums but with no conclusion that I can find.
I am on Chimera 2.0.1 (svn-r2109) [2013-02-19 23:42:16]
ML 10.8.4
Z77X-UP5-TH

Setting

<key>Timeout</key>
<string>1</string>

one would assume a countdown of one second.
The actual countdown is 4 to five seconds.

Setting it to 2 sec increases the countdown even more.
That is, NOT 2 secs.

Did not have any issues with old chameleon on my SL 10.6.8
Had the same issue with an Acer S3 notebook running ML booted vua Chimera.
It's been like this for a long time.

 

[macnb]

This happens in the latest Chimera too.

Is this "Chimera Bug Reports" thread dead ?
Any point in reporting anything here ?

 

[MacMan]

This bug has existed in the main trunk for over 2 years now.

Since it's purely cosmetic, it's an extremely low priority.

 

[macnb]

Yes I realise it been a long time.
It's not purely cosmetic bug though.
one second time is actually counting to say six seconds. I.e. the math calculation is wrong.
May be it is too simple to fix and so no one has bothered.

If I were a programmer who implemented this feature and knew it does not work, I couldn't sleep until it was fixed

 

[melvyn]

Also getting this problem.