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

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@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ threading
by system clock changes.
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`41710`.)
time
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@ -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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