From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 08:37:43 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Issue #20493: Document that asyncio should not exceed one day
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Issue #20493: Document that asyncio should not exceed one day
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diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
index 7760fcb168..b2c48024b5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
@@ -157,6 +157,10 @@ Which clock is used depends on the (platform-specific) event loop
 implementation; ideally it is a monotonic clock.  This will generally be
 a different clock than :func:`time.time`.
 
+.. note::
+
+   Timeouts (relative *delay* or absolute *when*) should not exceed one day.
+
 
 .. method:: BaseEventLoop.call_later(delay, callback, *args)