--deadline is a misnomer

[variadico]

--deadline should be called --timeout. A timeout is a relative time like what we're supposed to pass to the --deadline flag. An actual deadline is an absolute time.

Timeout: finish in 10 seconds.
Deadline: finish at 7:15:35PM.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948203
https://golang.org/pkg/context/#WithDeadline

This was confusing to me when I was reading the docs.

[titusjaka]

I would like to grab this one :)