make state update atomic and clean up some code

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/core/start b/core/start
index ae471ad..dbbabc0 100755
--- a/core/start
+++ b/core/start
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ done
 
 if [ "$state" = 'running' ] ; then
 	[ $allow_skip -eq 0 ] && err "timer is already running, use -s to skip lap"
-	time="0.0"
 	lap=$(( $lap + 1 ))
+	update_time=1
 	. "$core_path/update"
 fi
 
@@ -37,3 +37,4 @@ time="$(echo "$now + $time" | bc)"
 state='running'
 
 save_state
+