Hi
I looked up the word Jiffy that apparently has a definition in electronics namely
"In electronics, a jiffy is the time between alternating current power cycles,[2] 1/60 or 1/50
of a second in most mains power supplies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_(time)
So next time someone says "that will take me a picosecond longer"
they can have a bit more time by saying, "I will have that done in a jiffy" 🙂
Cheers / Chris
I looked up the word Jiffy that apparently has a definition in electronics namely
"In electronics, a jiffy is the time between alternating current power cycles,[2] 1/60 or 1/50
of a second in most mains power supplies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_(time)
So next time someone says "that will take me a picosecond longer"
they can have a bit more time by saying, "I will have that done in a jiffy" 🙂Cheers / Chris
I have to admit, I have heard many unspecified time references, but " take me a picosecond longer" in not one of them.
I bet the list of synonyms across languages and cultures is long.
I bet the list of synonyms across languages and cultures is long.
Related Question on Time Units
Why hasn't anybody suggested that calculations could be so-much-simpler if we used a metric-based system of time units? Instead of all the confusion caused by 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours in a day, 365 days in a year (sometimes), etc, we should replace them by units related by powers-of-ten. I suggest calling it the "while", so we could have 10 whiles in a "long while", one-tenth of a while could be a "little while", etc.
Dale
Why hasn't anybody suggested that calculations could be so-much-simpler if we used a metric-based system of time units? Instead of all the confusion caused by 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours in a day, 365 days in a year (sometimes), etc, we should replace them by units related by powers-of-ten. I suggest calling it the "while", so we could have 10 whiles in a "long while", one-tenth of a while could be a "little while", etc.
Dale
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