Talk:time

RFC discussion: February 2011–June 2012

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time

{{look}} Many of the related terms listed here are blatantly SoP. Someone needs to check all of them and look for idiomaticity. -- Prince Kassad 17:08, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

I propose to split them up into three groups: those that contain proper names, like "Alaskan time", in one group, nouns, and the rest (adjectives etc.). To shorten the list, alternative forms should be moved to the main derived term and removed from the list. Sae1962 (talk) 12:37, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

apprenticeship period

a period during which somebody is an apprentice
He had served his time
Microsoft® Encarta® 2009 

--Backinstadiums (talk) 15:11, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

for all time

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, page 127, reads

In English, the same grammatical construction is used for states which hold for all time or are outside time altogether, [ii]

Does it deserve its own entry? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:42, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Parse as "states which hold for (all time)", rather than "states which hold (for all time)". Which period do these states hold for? Equinox ◑ 18:10, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Forever – used when saying that something will last or be remembered forever because it is very good or special: Their deeds will be remembered for all time. --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:11, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

time of the season

what does "time of the season" mean? --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:46, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

in former times

Should in former times be added? --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:12, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Possessive in temporal expressions

I find time redundant in expressions such as in three weeks' time, so I'd add a note saying so. --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:33, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

I'd like to help, but I have many calls on my time

I'd like to help, but I have many calls on my time. 
Microsoft® Encarta® 2009

Is the meaning used in the phrase on my time added yet? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:35, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Yes, of course, it's the most basic sense of the thing measured by clocks. Equinox ◑ 19:40, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

@Equinox: on one's (own) time is an idiom --Backinstadiums (talk) 20:25, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

@Equinox: Found it here in one's own time --Backinstadiums (talk) 20:26, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

time immemorial: 2. time before legal records

the time prior to a date fixed as the start of the keeping of official legal records, before which no claims or rights are valid 
Microsoft® Encarta® 2009

--Backinstadiums (talk) 12:04, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

not before time

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Not+Before+Time --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:06, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

no time

I ain't never got nothing from nobody no time. (Song by Bert Williams) --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:49, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Amazing we didnt have a page for this before now ... but I didnt add your sense explicitly, I only added the idiomatic sense of a very short period of time. Yours can be subsumed under &lit, i think, and i gave a usage example that's similar. —Soap— 19:40, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

at the present time

Cliché now; at present. (Used often as a wordy replacement for now.) --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:13, 5 April 2021 (UTC)