Re: BSD sleep

>You think it's trivial until you read this:
>
>http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-ab=
out-time
>
>If you sleep one hour, do you sleep one hour from now or one hour from =

>the system clock which may change in the next hour?=A0 If it's the system =

>clock, you may sleep for ten minutes or ten hours.=A0 If you need to sleep =

>for 3600 seconds, that's simple and understandable.

what is stopping from interpreting 1h in similar manner to 3600? i.e. from =
now

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