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Date:      Wed, 29 May 2013 12:24:39 +0800 (SGT)
From:      Quark <unixuser2000-fbsd@yahoo.com>
To:        Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com>, Kenta Suzumoto <kentas@hush.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: BSD sleep
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>You think it's trivial until you read this:
>
>http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-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?  If it's the system 
>clock, you may sleep for ten minutes or ten hours.  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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