@KaraLG84@dragonscave.space > Jiffy can be an informal term for any unspecified short period, as in "I will be back in a jiffy". From this, it has acquired a number of more precise applications as the name of multiple units of measurement, each used to express or measure very brief durations of time. ... > In computing, a jiffy was originally the time between two ticks of the system timer interrupt.[7] It is not an absolute time interval unit, since its duration depends on the clock interrupt frequency of the particular hardware platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_(time) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_(time) @thalia@discuss.systems