Real-time sleep

I believe tokio::time::sleep only counts time while the computer is switched on ( at least running under windows ).

I would like a sleep function that count times while the computer is switched off (sleeping) ( "real time" ).

I can think of a way to implement this using a task that sleeps for a fairly short time, and uses "real time" to schedule sleeping tasks, but was wondering if there is an existing function in tokio or some other crate that handles this?

The tokio_timerfd crate can do it on Unix, but I'm not aware of any windows or cross platform libraries for this.

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I made my own async function, which does what I need ( it doesn't have to be especially accurate, and if it returns a bit early on rare occasions it doesn't matter ):

async fn sleep_real(secs: u64) {
    let start = std::time::SystemTime::now();
    let mut n = 0;
    while n < secs {
        tokio::time::sleep(core::time::Duration::from_secs(10)).await;
        match start.elapsed() {
            Ok(e) => {
                if e >= core::time::Duration::from_secs(secs) {
                    return;
                }
            }
            Err(_) => {
                return;
            }
        }
        n += 10;
    }
}

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