What will your distro print out after providing below lines seperatly?
MINUTES=`echo “014”`; echo “$(($MINUTES))”
SECONDS=`echo “014”`; echo “$(($SECONDS))”
MILISECONDS=`echo “014”`; echo “$(($MILISECONDS))”

Mine Ubuntu (and my friend’s Debian) behaves really strange.

It seems that SECONDS is special bash keyword.