Time var in rule unexpected output

[gohamstergo]

rule1: ON system#boot DO backlog mem1; time; if (time>(mem1+10)) dimmer 100;mem1 0 endif ENDON
rule2: ON event#time DO mem1 %time% ENDON

at the start of rule1, im just printing 'mem1' and 'time' so they show up in the log. mem1 is set in rule 2 from an external trigger. (i know i could combine these into a single rule, just chose not to.)

mem1 is being set properly as 'minutes past midnight' via %time% in rule2. but i have two issues with rule1:

1. 'time' in rule1 is providing a full timestamp, not minutes past midnight, at least when printed in the log.
2. the rule is running before the time is set from ntp so its 1970.

My questions:

1. what is a better trigger to wait until after the time is set?
2. Docs > Rules > Conditional Rules states that 'time' should be providing 'minutes past midnight' instead of the timestamp. is that a bug or am i doing it wrong?

thanks.

console output:

00:00:02.871 RUL: SYSTEM#BOOT performs 'backlog mem1; time; if (time>(mem1+10)) dimmer 100;mem1 0 endif'
00:00:02.912 RSL: RESULT = {"Mem1":"1424"}
00:00:03.162 RSL: RESULT = {"Time":"1970-01-01T00:00:03"}
17:49:10.131 RSL: RESULT = {"If":"Done"}
17:49:10.381 RSL: RESULT = {"POWER":"ON","Dimmer":100}
17:49:10.591 RSL: RESULT = {"Mem1":"0"}

[sfromis]

What you do in rule 1 is to issue the command Time which is a very different thing from the rules variable time. If you wanted to "print" the latter, you could do something like var9 %time% or var9=time. The output of the Time command does have the proper format, but of course not with the correct time yet.

NTP synchronization seems to have failed, normally real time would already have been updated at the point of System#boot. Ideally, you should fix the reason for NTP synchronization failing, but you do also have the trigger Time#initialized available.

[gohamstergo]

using time#initialized works perfectly! i have a local ntp server since the devices don't get internet, so maybe thats just a touch slow. also, noted on the different time commands. using a var to print now and working great with the new trigger, thanks!