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Fix incorrect 'Ready in' time for next start#88589

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What

Fix the incorrect "Ready in" time displayed when running next start. The bug caused the time to show impossibly large values like "Ready in 29474457.7min" instead of the actual startup duration.

Why

The NEXT_PRIVATE_START_TIME environment variable was not being properly set/propagated when startServer() read it. When the variable was missing, the code defaulted to 0, causing the calculation Date.now() - 0 to equal the entire Unix timestamp (~1.77 trillion milliseconds ≈ 29 million minutes).

How

  1. Added a fallback in cli/next-start.ts to set NEXT_PRIVATE_START_TIME if it's not already set by bin/next.ts
  2. Updated the calculation in start-server.ts to use 0 as the duration if startTime is falsy, preventing the bug
  3. Removed unused performance mark code that was leftover

Test Plan

Run next start on a production build and verify the "Ready in" time shows a reasonable value (e.g., "Ready in 523ms" instead of millions of minutes).

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Comment on lines +374 to 376
const startServerProcessDurationMs = startTime ? endTime - startTime : 0

const formattedStartDuration = durationToString(
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maybe leverage process.uptime()*1000 here? Ready in 0ms` would be pretty confusing i think

@timneutkens timneutkens merged commit 166e0ef into canary Jan 16, 2026
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wyattjoh pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 16, 2026
## What

Fix the incorrect "Ready in" time displayed when running `next start`.
The bug caused the time to show impossibly large values like "Ready in
29474457.7min" instead of the actual startup duration.

## Why

The `NEXT_PRIVATE_START_TIME` environment variable was not being
properly set/propagated when `startServer()` read it. When the variable
was missing, the code defaulted to `0`, causing the calculation
`Date.now() - 0` to equal the entire Unix timestamp (~1.77 trillion
milliseconds ≈ 29 million minutes).

## How

1. Added a fallback in `cli/next-start.ts` to set
`NEXT_PRIVATE_START_TIME` if it's not already set by `bin/next.ts`
2. Updated the calculation in `start-server.ts` to use `0` as the
duration if `startTime` is falsy, preventing the bug
3. Removed unused performance mark code that was leftover

## Test Plan

Run `next start` on a production build and verify the "Ready in" time
shows a reasonable value (e.g., "Ready in 523ms" instead of millions of
minutes).
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