Re: Premature wakeup of time.sleep()

Steve Horsley wrote:
I think the sleep times are quantised to the granularity of the system clock, shich varies from os to os. From memory, windows 95 has a 55mS timer, NT is less (19mS?), Linux and solaris 1mS. All this is from

For the record, the correct value for NT/XP family is about 15.6 ms (possibly exactly 64 per second and thus 15.625ms, but offhand I don't recall, though I'm sure Google does).

-Peter
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