diff --git a/std/os.zig b/std/os.zig
index e8d0bcb5ef..35105ed9f8 100644
--- a/std/os.zig
+++ b/std/os.zig
@@ -2315,19 +2315,6 @@ pub fn realpathW(pathname: [*]const u16, out_buffer: *[MAX_PATH_BYTES]u8) RealPa
 
 /// Spurious wakeups are possible and no precision of timing is guaranteed.
 pub fn nanosleep(seconds: u64, nanoseconds: u64) void {
-    if (windows.is_the_target and !builtin.link_libc) {
-        // TODO https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1284
-        const small_s = math.cast(windows.DWORD, seconds) catch math.maxInt(windows.DWORD);
-        const ms_from_s = math.mul(windows.DWORD, small_s, std.time.ms_per_s) catch math.maxInt(windows.DWORD);
-
-        const ns_per_ms = std.time.ns_per_s / std.time.ms_per_s;
-        const big_ms_from_ns = nanoseconds / ns_per_ms;
-        const ms_from_ns = math.cast(windows.DWORD, big_ms_from_ns) catch math.maxInt(windows.DWORD);
-
-        const ms = math.add(windows.DWORD, ms_from_s, ms_from_ns) catch math.maxInt(windows.DWORD);
-        windows.kernel32.Sleep(ms);
-        return;
-    }
     var req = timespec{
         .tv_sec = math.cast(isize, seconds) catch math.maxInt(isize),
         .tv_nsec = math.cast(isize, nanoseconds) catch math.maxInt(isize),
diff --git a/std/time.zig b/std/time.zig
index b8f031202c..362c55d4a8 100644
--- a/std/time.zig
+++ b/std/time.zig
@@ -3,11 +3,19 @@ const std = @import("std.zig");
 const assert = std.debug.assert;
 const testing = std.testing;
 const os = std.os;
+const math = std.math;
 
 pub const epoch = @import("time/epoch.zig");
 
 /// Spurious wakeups are possible and no precision of timing is guaranteed.
 pub fn sleep(nanoseconds: u64) void {
+    if (os.windows.is_the_target) {
+        const ns_per_ms = ns_per_s / ms_per_s;
+        const big_ms_from_ns = nanoseconds / ns_per_ms;
+        const ms = math.cast(os.windows.DWORD, big_ms_from_ns) catch math.maxInt(os.windows.DWORD);
+        os.windows.kernel32.Sleep(ms);
+        return;
+    }
     const s = nanoseconds / ns_per_s;
     const ns = nanoseconds % ns_per_s;
     std.os.nanosleep(s, ns);