What happens to setTimeout when the computer goes to sleep?

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In a modern web browser, suppose I do a setTimeout for 10 minutes (at 12:00), and 5 minutes later put the computer to sleep, what should happen when the system wakes up again? What happens if it wakes up before the 10 minutes are up (at 12:09) or much later (at 16:00)?

The reason I'm asking is because I'd like to have a new authentication token requested every 10 minutes, and I'm not sure if the browser will do the right thing and immediately request a new token if it wakes up after a long time.

Clarifications: I don't wan't to use cookies - I'm trying to build a web service here; and yes, the server will reject old and invalid tokens.

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7 Answers

Based on Ben's answer, I created the following util. You can tweak the sampling duration, however I use it just like this for token refreshing:

const absoluteSetInterval = (handler, timeout) => {
  let baseTime = Date.now();
  const callHandler = () => {
    if (Date.now() - baseTime > timeout) {
      baseTime = Date.now();
      handler();
    }
  };
  return window.setInterval(callHandler, 1000);
};

const absoluteClearInterval = (handle) => window.clearInterval(handle);
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