Delaying for a specific time interval

To delay a thread for a specific time interval, you use the TClock::DelayFor function. To call Delay For, a thread must have a time instance that specifies the delay time, and a clock to delay on.

To delay the calling thread for 1 hour:

  1. Instantiate THours and TSystemClock.
  2. Call DelayFor on the system clock instance with the desired delay time, 1 hour.
    The delay returns when the current time on the system clock is at least 1 hour greater than when DelayFor was called. If DelayFor is called 3 hours after the system starts, the delay returns when the current time on the system clock is greater than or equal to 4 hours.
      THours      delayTime(1);
TSystemClock realTimeClock;

realTimeClock.DelayFor(delayTime);
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