GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 410542
Internet time with seconds is not good
Last modified: 2012-09-03 09:47:14 UTC
See bug 348749, where the two first patches fix an internet time issue. The patches need to be extracted/updated to get reviewed.
Note that one issue is the timeout, and the other is that printf("%3.2f") rounds the float. One solution might be to cheat with the seconds there, and only count them (and not get them from time()), since a second for internet time is 0.864 real second, and it might be too short for the timeouts.
Internet time got dropped in 3.5.