Kossuth I think I know why you saw the old bug: The uninstall script stops timenow but stop does not relegate to the actual timenow process, (that's why killall is needed) so after the installation of the upgraded package there were two timenow daemons running. The old and the new.

Now we've got to solve the need to stop and kill each reboot. One obvious workaround is to put this procedure in the init script, but that's an ugly workaround.

The thing is that I change batteries atleast twice a week and timenow always starts ok after boot. Please check whether there are more than 1 timenow related files in /etc/event.d

The only other thing I can think of is purging timenow, making sure that there is no timenow.conf in /etc/event.d + /etc/init.d and reinstalling. (kill everything between)