diff --git a/spec/integration/configurer_spec.rb b/spec/integration/configurer_spec.rb
index 825b6322e..05b3d6146 100755
--- a/spec/integration/configurer_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/integration/configurer_spec.rb
@@ -1,68 +1,73 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
 
 require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper')
 
 require 'puppet/configurer'
 
 describe Puppet::Configurer do
   include PuppetSpec::Files
 
   describe "when downloading plugins" do
     it "should use the :pluginsignore setting, split on whitespace, for ignoring remote files" do
       resource = Puppet::Type.type(:notify).new :name => "yay"
       Puppet::Type.type(:file).expects(:new).with { |args| args[:ignore] == Puppet[:pluginsignore].split(/\s+/) }.returns resource
 
       configurer = Puppet::Configurer.new
       configurer.stubs(:download_plugins?).returns true
       configurer.download_plugins
     end
   end
 
   describe "when running" do
     before(:each) do
       @catalog = Puppet::Resource::Catalog.new
       @catalog.add_resource(Puppet::Type.type(:notify).new(:title => "testing"))
 
       # Make sure we don't try to persist the local state after the transaction ran, 
       # because it will fail during test (the state file is in an not existing directory)
       # and we need the transaction to be successful to be able to produce a summary report
       @catalog.host_config = false
 
       @configurer = Puppet::Configurer.new
     end
 
     it "should send a transaction report with valid data" do
 
       @configurer.stubs(:save_last_run_summary)
       Puppet::Transaction::Report.indirection.expects(:save).with do |report, x|
         report.time.class == Time and report.logs.length > 0
       end
 
       Puppet[:report] = true
 
       @configurer.run :catalog => @catalog
     end
 
     it "should save a correct last run summary" do
       report = Puppet::Transaction::Report.new("apply")
       Puppet::Transaction::Report.indirection.stubs(:save)
 
       Puppet[:lastrunfile] = tmpfile("lastrunfile")
       Puppet[:report] = true
 
+      # We only record integer seconds in the timestamp, and truncate
+      # backwards, so don't use a more accurate timestamp in the test.
+      # --daniel 2011-03-07
+      t1 = Time.now.tv_sec
       @configurer.run :catalog => @catalog, :report => report
+      t2 = Time.now.tv_sec
 
       summary = nil
       File.open(Puppet[:lastrunfile], "r") do |fd|
         summary = YAML.load(fd.read)
       end
 
       summary.should be_a(Hash)
       %w{time changes events resources}.each do |key|
         summary.should be_key(key)
       end
       summary["time"].should be_key("notify")
-      summary["time"]["last_run"].should >= Time.now.tv_sec
+      summary["time"]["last_run"].should be_between(t1, t2)
     end
   end
 end