Game Mechanics: Can't revive with time left on corpse.

[Droxx]

Had this happen while in City of Mist.

Dueled PC_01
He has to relog.
PC logs back in (after corpse would have expired had he stayed on)
Rez timer is still available on corpse.
Cast rez 5x getting "Unable to restore, later attempt blah blah" each time.

It seems revive timer was running while he was offline?

Situation seems really vague but I can't think of a better way to explain it at the moment.