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@@ -51,18 +51,8 @@ It is usually used to schedule the execution of other commands (see
.Sx EXAMPLES
below).
.Pp
-Note: The
-.Nx
-.Nm
-command will accept and honor a non-integer number of specified seconds.
-Note however, that if the request is for much more than 2.5 hours,
-any fractional seconds will be ignored.
-Permitting non-integral delays is a non-portable extension,
-and its use will decrease the probability that
-a shell script will execute properly on another system.
-.Pp
When the
-.Dv SIGINFO
+.Dv SIGHUP
signal is received, an estimate of the number of seconds remaining to
sleep is printed on the standard output.
.Sh EXIT STATUS
@@ -154,10 +144,6 @@ A
.Nm
utility appeared in
.At v4 .
-Processing fractional seconds, and processing the
-.Ic seconds
-argument respecting the current locale, was added in
-.Nx 1.3 .
The ability to sleep for extended periods appeared in
.Nx 9 .
.Sh BUGS