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<concept xml:lang="en" id="GUID-EA6965FB-5BB6-5110-9A16-B5403E1983D4"><title>How to wait for a given time</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody><p>Use the <codeph>At()</codeph> function to set the timer to complete at a specific time.</p> <p>The following example suspends the thread until the current time plus ten seconds.</p> <codeblock id="GUID-83E4B363-6E1B-5031-84EF-C3F2D104106B" xml:space="preserve">
// get current time (microseconds since 0AD nominal Gregorian)
TTime time; 
time.HomeTime();  

// add ten seconds to the time
TTimeIntervalSeconds timeIntervalSeconds(10);
time += timeIntervalSeconds;

// issue and wait
timer.At(timerStatus,time);
User::WaitForRequest(timerStatus);</codeblock> </conbody></concept>