The point of making pausing async is to allow time to sync up the current time
with the compositor. Setting the current time manually should simply force it to
the specified time and complete the pause action, not abort it. (We do a similar
thing for a pending play. For a pending play we're waiting to establish
a suitable start time. Manually setting the start time in that case simply
forces the start time to the specified time and completes the play operation.)
