[jquery] wait() or sleep() function in jquery?

I found a function called sleep function on the internet and don't know who made it. Here it is.

function sleep(milliseconds) {
  var start = new Date().getTime();
  for (var i = 0; i < 1e7; i++) {
    if ((new Date().getTime() - start) > milliseconds){
      break;
    }
  }
}

sleep(2000);