Question about --type absolute

[thanatos]

When running w/ --type absolute, the time displayed by gnomon on line N is the time that line N+1 appeared.

Is this not confusing? E.g.,

» bash -c 'echo a && sleep 5 && echo b' | ./node_modules/gnomon/bin/gnomon -t absolute
19:46:25.000273 +0000   a
19:46:25.000276 +0000   b
19:46:25.000276 +0000

                Total   4.8277s

despite there being a 5s difference in the output times of a and b, gnomon's timestamps are nearly identical. (because of the above.)