timeout-minutes is not getting respected

[batbattur]

Problem

Originally posted in actions/runner#3699, but posting it here since it might be related how
ARC manages the timeouts.

I'm using Actions Runner Controller for my workflow. I noticed that the timer for the job/run starts
immediately before the first step starts running (sometimes it takes a few minutes for the first step to start).

Sometimes the workflows are running into timeout-minutes limit and getting cancelled
even though the the total time for all steps didn't reach the timeout limit.

For example, the following workflow run was cancelled because it hit the timeout-minutes: 8 limit.
However, the total time for all of the steps was only around ~2minutes.

Question

I'm suspecting that, the timeout-minutes is using the initial queue start time for the job (maybe?) instead
of the time that passed from the first step.

How can I make the timeout-minutes to use the total time for the steps instead of the job queue start?