Timers can be off by up to 5 seconds

[FIREdog5]

The timers all throughout Shepherd are very inconsistent. The timers used in the backend often run too long, and the timers on the frontend can get desynced by 5 seconds (sometimes even more!). There are likely multiple causes for these desyncs, and going forward it's probably a better idea to use an absolute timestamp from when the timer is started to calculate times, so everything will line up.