timer: Rename `sleep` to `delay_for`, reexport from tokio (#1518)

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tokio-timer/src/lib.rs b/tokio-timer/src/lib.rs
index 030f14f6..94347666 100644
--- a/tokio-timer/src/lib.rs
+++ b/tokio-timer/src/lib.rs
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ pub fn delay(deadline: Instant) -> Delay {
 }
 
 /// Create a Future that completes in `duration` from now.
-pub fn sleep(duration: Duration) -> Delay {
+///
+/// Equivalent to `delay(Instant::now() + duration)`. Analogous to `std::thread::sleep`.
+pub fn delay_for(duration: Duration) -> Delay {
     delay(Instant::now() + duration)
 }