A friend emailed me with a slightly snarky usage question about the compound adjective "real-time". He asked, "Is there any other kind of time?" Of course, he's absolutely right, it is a pretty hollow and meaningless lump of letters, but it did get me to thinking.

Off the top of my head I came up with three other kinds of time. They are:

1) Closing time. ( 15 minutes ahead of the rest of the world )

2) Hammer time. ( 1980-89 R.I.P. ),

3) CLOBBERIN' TIME! ( measured by the number of stony fist impacts )

What other kinds of time can you come up with?