diff --git a/bin/sleep/sleep.1 b/bin/sleep/sleep.1 index 85086acec5ad..f7da87152f99 100644 --- a/bin/sleep/sleep.1 +++ b/bin/sleep/sleep.1 @@ -70,9 +70,10 @@ signal is not handled specially by this implementation. .Pp The .Nm -command allows and honors a non-integer number of seconds to sleep -in any form acceptable by -.Xr strtod 3 and it accepts more than one delay value. +command supports other time units than seconds, +honors a non-integer number of time units to sleep in any form acceptable by +.Xr strtod 3 , +and accepts more than one delay value. These are non-portable extensions, but they have also been implemented in GNU sh-utils since version 2.0a (released in 2002). .Sh EXIT STATUS