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Written by David Chisnall (Now with 50% more sarcasm!) on 2025-01-17 at 14:27

@ltratt Any time I want that, it's because I want to run a thing with reference to some calendar. For example, do this at 4pm, or do this every third Sunday in a month. And that's really hard to do right. Monotonic clock for timeouts works well though. I'm going to wait for this service to respond for two seconds and, if it doesn't, I might spawn a new process to create it, for example, would be broken horribly if every suspend/resume triggered the timeout in every waiter.

What is your use case for wanting X seconds of wall-clock (but not real wall clock) time?

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