[issue19999] test_monotonic fails on x86 OpenIndiana

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

For more info on time, you can refer to the PEP 418.

I may be interesting to add "sleep" to time.get_clock_info(). time.sleep()
uses WaitForSingleObject() on windows. It may use internally a different
clock with a different resolution than time.monoyonic (GetTickCount). The
PEP says "WaitForSingleObject(): use the same timer than GetTickCount()
with the same precision."

I don't think that it's very useful to investigate the rounding issue on
Windows. The resolution of Windows clocks is very coarse (15 ms, 10^-2)
compared to Unix clocks (usually a few nanoseconds, 10^-9)... I changed
recently the unit test to check if a sleep of 0.5 seconds gives a time
delta of at least 0.5 seconds. The minimum delta can be set to 0.45 sec
with a comment refering to this issue.

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