[7.5.0] Fix duration measurement issues in the client

[bazel-io]

Forked from #24344

[bazel-io]

Cherry-pick was attempted but there were merge conflicts in the following file(s). Please resolve manually.

src/main/cpp/blaze.cc
src/main/cpp/blaze_util_platform.h
src/main/cpp/blaze_util_posix.cc
src/main/cpp/blaze_util_windows.cc
src/test/cpp/blaze_archive_test.cc

cc: @bazelbuild/triage

[iancha1992]

Cherry-pick was attempted but there were merge conflicts in the following file(s). Please resolve manually.

src/main/cpp/blaze.cc src/main/cpp/blaze_util_platform.h src/main/cpp/blaze_util_posix.cc src/main/cpp/blaze_util_windows.cc src/test/cpp/blaze_archive_test.cc

cc: @bazelbuild/triage

cc: @fmeum @tjgq

[fmeum]

Not simple enough to safely cherry-pick.