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-rw-r--r--src/time/time.go4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/time/time.go b/src/time/time.go
index 6579639740..02452d1c1f 100644
--- a/src/time/time.go
+++ b/src/time/time.go
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@
// readings. If either t or u contains no monotonic clock reading, these
// operations fall back to using the wall clock readings.
//
+// On some systems the monotonic clock will stop if the computer goes to sleep.
+// On such a system, t.Sub(u) may not accurately reflect the actual
+// time that passed between t and u.
+//
// Because the monotonic clock reading has no meaning outside
// the current process, the serialized forms generated by t.GobEncode,
// t.MarshalBinary, t.MarshalJSON, and t.MarshalText omit the monotonic