»In which we set TIMEZONE

The standardization of time is of critical importance to electronics engineering, and especially to computing.

The United States Mobile Aeronautics Education Laboratory has
a brief quiz on time, and the Free BSD Diary has a succint piece on time zones in FreeBSD. I have relied on Kerberos for authentication, and Kerberos can be subverted by time skew.

Unhelpfully, the origin of "jiffy" remains unknown, leaving the etymology of an exciting and euphonic word a mystery.