On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:56 PM, <mark.a.big...@comcast.net> wrote: > Instant Most apropos. Classes are nouns, so the adjectival meaning doesn't cause a conflict, IMHO: "an instant" has nothing to do with instant coffee.
> Moment Also apropos, and with a history in the field (Calendrical Calculations uses "moment" for values that include a fractional part of a day, as oppsoed to "date" values which only have 1-day resolution), but with the mentioned conflicting meanings. > Point Most commonly used for points in space (or spacetime) instead of just time. > PointInTime Fails Huffman. > Timestamp Not unreasonable, but it sounds like a string format instead of an abstract value. > Event See Point. An event has space coordinates as well as a time one. > Jiffy That's a unit of time (of variable value depending on context), not a point in time. You might as well call it a Millisecond or Microsecond. > Time Brings a lot of expectational baggage with it. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>
