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+++ Bill Moran [28-04-03 09:40 -0400]:
| On Monday 28 April 2003 05:07 am, Shantanu Mahajan wrote:
| > +++ Shantanu Mahajan [freebsd] [25-04-03 01:56 +0530]:
| > | 	Hi!
| > | 	I am useing 5.0R.
| > |
| > | 	> date;sleep 1;date
| > |
| > | 	Fri Apr 25 01:53:44 IST 2003
| > | 	Fri Apr 25 01:53:46 IST 2003
| > |
| > |
| > | 	I am not able to figure out the problem. any
| > | 	comments?
| >
| > 	Here are few more examples.
| >
| > 	> date;sleep 5;date
| >
| > 	Mon Apr 28 14:13:45 IST 2003
| > 	Mon Apr 28 14:13:55 IST 2003
| >
| > 	> date;sleep 10;date
| >
| > 	Mon Apr 28 14:14:26 IST 2003
| > 	Mon Apr 28 14:14:46 IST 2003
| >
| > 	> date;sleep 15;date
| >
| > 	Mon Apr 28 14:15:24 IST 2003
| > 	Mon Apr 28 14:15:54 IST 2003
| >
| >
| > 	Now, I started the timer simultaneously and found
| > 	out that "sleep 5" give me dalay of 5 sec. properly.
| >
| > 	Maybe there is problem with date?
| > 	Should I file a pr?
| >
| > 	(The machine used is *desktop* machine and don't
| > 	have any load)
| 
| I ran the exact same tests on my newly installed 5.0
| workstation and got the results expected (i.e. sleep 5
| actually waited 5 seconds).
| 
| Perhaps it's not sleep, but your clock on your PC
| that is the problem.  If you time the sleep command
| (with a stopwatch, for example) does it sleep for 5
| or 10 seconds?  Is the clock on your PC actually
| keeping reliable (or close) time?
	using stopwatch, I get 5s delay with sleep 5. But
	date command shows me 10s delay
| 
| -- 
| Bill Moran
| Potential Technologies
| http://www.potentialtech.com
	Regards,
	Shantanu

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