Java Thread.sleep() on Windows 10 stops in S3 sleep status

Question

There\'s a desktop application that uses Thread.sleep() to achieve long (minutes or hours) delays. This same application has been working fine from Windows XP through (at l

Answer 1

This is expected, valid behavior. The documentation is very explicit, stating:

these sleep times are not guaranteed to be precise, because they are limited by the facilities provided by the underlying OS.

and:

In any case, you cannot assume that invoking sleep will suspend the thread for precisely the time period specified.