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 Message-ID: <1369801479.2670.YahooMailNeo@web190706.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <51A541B5.3010905@gmail.com> References: <20130528230140.A5B396F448@smtp.hushmail.com> <51A541B5.3010905@gmail.com>
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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 nowhelp
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