From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-12 07:20:56
Johan Nilsson wrote:
> Out of curiosity, who actually prefers using clock times for
> thread::sleep()? IIRC the implementation still converts the UTC time into a
> relative time before entering sleep, so it's only misleading to have an
> absolute time as parameter to sleep.
You would need to ask the pthreads folks. ;-)
This behaviour is inherited from there.
Roland