[pdftex] \pdfelapsedtime

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2 November 2009 Will Robertson wrote:

 > Hi,
 > 
 > I've noticed a problem with \pdfelapsedtime in TL'09:
 > 
 > \documentclass{article}
 > \begin{document}
 > \showthe\pdfelapsedtime
 > \end{document}
 > 
 > In TeXLive 2008, this returns something a little over 2000; in  
 > TL'2009, it usually returns zero, but sometimes 65536. (pdfTeX is  
 > 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009).)

\pdfelapsedtime apparently works perfectly with pdftex 1.40.9 but not
with version 1.40.10.

Thanh, please see my mail from Mon Jul 6 01:10:23 +0200 2009.

 > I've received confirmation (err, of sample size two including me) that  
 > this occurs on Mac OS X and Linux but not Windows builds of pdfTeX in  
 > TeX Live 2009.

I can't test it right now, I don't have Windows.  Which version of
pdftex for Windows is in TL-2009? 

Regards,
  Reinhard

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