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In the old repo was always cast this to an integer before a string, because the script we provide this to will fail when provided a float (as is returned by timedelta.total_seconds). Somehow it was missed during the transition, assuming it was related to the templating rather than an underlying requirement. Add a comment as well to make it clear this is a requirement of the script we are invoking.