Re: [boost] Boost Threads Condition may block forever on clockchange

Anthony Williams:

If a relative timeout is specified (using e.g. boost::posix_time::seconds), then the GetTickCount API is used as a baseline for the relative timeout, and before each internal wait the current tick count is compared against the baseline in order to determine the remaining time.

We should probably think of a way to enable the use of a monotonic clock with the absolute timeout overloads. It doesn't feel right to make the relative overloads the only way to access the functionality.