I'm writing some software to do itemized billing for our Dial Up users and
noticed that the Total number of seconds does not correspond to the time
stamps in the log between start and stop.
Ex:
We have the following entry:
Wed Jan 3 07:53:12 to Wed Jan 3 15:01:01 7:07:53
Your logs have this listed as:
(some stuff deleted for customer privacy)
Wed Jan 3 07:53:12 1996
Acct-Status-Type = Start
Wed Jan 3 15:01:01 1996
Acct-Status-Type = Stop
Acct-Session-Time = 25673
You list the total seconds as 25673. However when you subtract the
entry in the stop log, from the entry in the start log, you have a
total of 25428 seconds or 7:03:48. (HH:MM:SS)
This is a pretty substantial difference (slightly over 4 minutes) and in the
course of logins over the period of a month, this can really add up. The
biggest embarrasment though would be to release statistics of start and stop
times in an itemized listing, like the one shown above, that don't match.
I believe this is an error, since it doesn't always happen. Sometimes the
stuff adds up.
If for some reason this isn't an error, which is correct? Your start and
stop time stamps? Or your total seconds under Acct-Session-Time? We
endeavor to be accurate.
Please let me know as soon as possible so we can adjust our software
accordingly. If you release a bug fix for this soon, however, we won't have
to change our source code at all.
Best,
Steve
Steve Van Natta, President
One World Network - Strategic Internet Access
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Fax: 617-267-2008
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