Time Glossary
Browse 6 time terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
6 Time Terms
- Calendar
- A structured representation or interface for dates, events, schedules, and time-based interactions. In software development, calendars often involve recurring...
- Clock
- A source of time used by software for timestamps, scheduling, timeouts, ordering, and measurement. Clocks can represent wall time, monotonic time, or mocked...
- Clock Synchronization
- The process of keeping clocks on different systems aligned closely enough that timestamps, token validity, scheduling, and ordering assumptions continue to...
- Mock the Clock
- To replace real time with controlled test time so time-dependent logic becomes predictable and testable. In engineering slang, mocking the clock is one of the...
- Timestamp
- A value representing a specific point in time, typically stored as seconds or milliseconds since the Unix epoch (January 1, 1970 UTC) or as an ISO 8601 string...
- Time Zone Handling
- One of the hardest problems in programming. Rules: store all timestamps in UTC, convert to local time only for display. Use IANA timezone names...
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