From a3f34db635c3979aefeb45046a322341f76ff72e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 20:25:58 +0100 Subject: add rationale to readme MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée --- README | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 8725722..d908e63 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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) -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2