When I reboot I get a fresh login screen for several seconds? before the reboot starts

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2024-08-25 at 21:49 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> Set the time on the PC to show seconds before you hit the
> button, or bring up a clock.

Or run shutdown with the reboot option and a time.

shutdown [OPTIONS...] [TIME] [WALL...]

Actually we should use systemctl these days.

FWIW if I need seconds, I use one of those:

$ watch -n1 date

$ xclock -d -strftime "%H:%M:%S" -update 1 &