`ps -o lstart=` pads a one-digit day ("Oct 1"); loop_lock.sh's mam_lstart
squeezes the spaces before comparing, but A8 wrote the raw value, so the
live holder's marker looked stale and the second loop was not refused on
the 1st-9th of every month. The test now normalises like the product (the
product is unchanged) and also runs with a `ps` shim that always prints a
padded lstart, so the padded case is checked on every date.
The other tests that record a live lstart (test_o3_scoped_guard
_get_lstart) already normalise; test_o2's markers carry fixed stale values.
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