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| author | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2015-11-10 20:25:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2015-11-10 20:25:58 +0100 |
| commit | a3f34db635c3979aefeb45046a322341f76ff72e (patch) | |
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| parent | dist: fix arch (diff) | |
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add rationale to readme
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
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@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ DESCRIPTION (the proper implementation of a monotonic clock), and CLOCK_TAI does not work. +RATIONALE + Previously, the best wait to sleep until a specific time + was to use date, sleep, and arithmetics in Bash. This is + very inconvenient, and only allows sleep over a monotonic + clock. + + This progam was written so that the author could combine + it with mplayer to construct a custom alarm clock. + SEE ALSO sleep(1), date(1) |