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bpo-45429: Merge whatsnew about time.sleep (GH-29589) 

Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
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@ -362,7 +362,10 @@ Functions
On Windows, if *secs* is zero, the thread relinquishes the remainder of its
time slice to any other thread that is ready to run. If there are no other
threads ready to run, the function returns immediately, and the thread
continues execution.
continues execution. On Windows 8.1 and newer the implementation uses
a `high-resolution timer
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/kernel/high-resolution-timers>`_
which provides resolution of 100 nanoseconds. If *secs* is zero, ``Sleep(0)`` is used.
Unix implementation:
@ -370,9 +373,6 @@ Functions
* Or use ``nanosleep()`` if available (resolution: 1 nanosecond);
* Or use ``select()`` (resolution: 1 microsecond).
On Windows, a waitable timer is used (resolution: 100 nanosecond). If *secs* is
zero, ``Sleep(0)`` is used.
.. versionchanged:: 3.11
On Unix, the ``clock_nanosleep()`` and ``nanosleep()`` functions are now
used if available. On Windows, a waitable timer is now used.

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@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ threading
by system clock changes.
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`41710`.)
time
----
@ -278,14 +279,13 @@ time
of 1 microsecond (10\ :sup:`-6` seconds).
(Contributed by Benjamin Szőke and Victor Stinner in :issue:`21302`.)
* On Windows, :func:`time.sleep` now uses a waitable timer which has a
resolution of 100 nanoseconds (10\ :sup:`-7` seconds). Previously, it had
a resolution of 1 millisecond (10\ :sup:`-3` seconds).
(Contributed by Benjamin Szőke and Victor Stinner in :issue:`21302`.)
* On Windows 8.1 and newer, :func:`time.sleep` now uses a waitable timer based
on `high-resolution timers
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/kernel/high-resolution-timers>`_
which has a resolution of 100 nanoseconds (10\ :sup:`-7` seconds). Previously,
it had a resolution of 1 millisecond (10\ :sup:`-3` seconds).
(Contributed by Benjamin Szőke, Dong-hee Na, Eryk Sun and Victor Stinner in :issue:`21302` and :issue:`45429`.)
* On Windows, :func:`time.sleep` now uses a waitable timer which supports high-resolution timers.
In Python 3.10, the best resolution was 1 ms, from Python 3.11 it's now smaller than 1 ms.
(Contributed by Dong-hee Na and Eryk Sun in :issue:`45429`.)
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