Your 12 volt battery must have charged from the DC-DC recently. That was the case with mine, at the second software update. He popped the hood and put his charge device on it, and it said OK. He closed the hood, and sat in the car with the laptop for 20 minutes, two feet on the brake pedal. I was in and out in 30 minutes as well. I love small shops.
It definitely matters. You'd have been sitting with a flat 12 volt, if the update was done with it low.