runtime: linkrot in Windows definition of nanotime1

[tpaschalis]

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.16.2 darwin/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output

$ go env
GO111MODULE=""
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN="/Users/paschalistsilias/go/bin"
GOCACHE="/Users/paschalistsilias/Library/Caches/go-build"
GOENV="/Users/paschalistsilias/Library/Application Support/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOINSECURE=""
GOMODCACHE="/Users/paschalistsilias/go/pkg/mod"
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/paschalistsilias/go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GOVCS=""
GOVERSION="go1.16"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="clang"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/dev/null"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -arch x86_64 -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/30/kmdf3yr533s_s538b8pj7rtc0000gp/T/go-build571699484=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

What did you do?

I was investigating how the current time is fetched in Windows and found some rotten links referencing an implementation detail eg. here

What did you expect to see?

A working link to better understand why the implementation is as-is.

What did you see instead?

404 - not found There is no content available for the given URL. on the target link

[tpaschalis]

Unfortunately, the page was only captured by the Wayback Machine only once in May 11, where it was already rotten.

Other mirrors of the article like here are a dead-end; the only live one I was able to find is this which appears to be from the same source, the 'Windows Research Kernel' at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut.

If there's no objection, I will open a CL to replace all occurences with the live mirror and a link to the archived version.

[gopherbot]

Change https://golang.org/cl/308997 mentions this issue: runtime: replace rotten documentation link in Windows' nanotime