Pivot cruft in step_systime

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> It gets rid of that ugly pivot code.  I think you call it a defect attractor. 

Damn straight I do!

>  Even if it is correct, it makes the rest of the code harder to read.
> 
> I think it cleanly sets things up so that our first jump works-right time 
> range is relative to build time.

These are good arguments, but we're about to code-freeze and that change
is *absolutely* a potential destabilizer.

Gary is right, this is post-1.0 work.
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