There’s some really nice utility functions in Cocoa that can make life a lot easier. Take performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: for example. It will call a function for you after a specified delay. But beware! It is the amount of time experienced by the main thread, not real time. Say you say to cocoa to call you back in 8 hours, but you put your machine to sleep for 4 hours in that period. In this scenario your selector will be called in 8+4 hours.
The moral of this story? Only use performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: for short delays.
- Möller
