A top-up restores the balance, not the timers — how do you tell?

A top-up restores the balance, not the timers — how do you tell?In How can top-up be this broken and unstable?! a top-up reported success and the canister's balance did not go up. Working out what had actually happened took reconstructing, from the outside, where the cycles had gone — and one of the first questions asked was whether the canister was spending…This forum reads and writes through the Internet Computer from your browser, so the discussion itself needs JavaScript enabled.