question about max_time

[jrobbins-LiveData]

It appears that max_time sets a time limit for the time spent retrying, that does not include the initial try. If that is correct, if all I have is, for example, the total time budget for an API call, then I have to subtract the maximum time the initial attempt take from max_time to make sure that the total time spent = (initial attempt + all retries) < time_budget. Is that the intent of the code?

By way of context, we assumed that max_time could be set to our time_budget for the total time spent calling an API, but this assumption seemed to be incorrect.

[fbalboaDialpad]

Just ran into the same issue. The docs are not clear about this, but looking at the way that elapsed is computed, OP seems to be right. Also found #186 talking about the same