New Unit of Time, Flick, invented by Facebook

Facebook propelled another item today: Flicks, another unit of time. Truly, it's hard to believe, but it's true. A unit of time, similar to seconds or minutes or hours. All things considered, why restrain affirming your corporate strength to social associations, the utilization of the news cycle, and publicizing on the web, when you can characterize the very stream of time itself? 

Agreeing the GitHub page archiving Flicks, a Flick is "the littlest time unit which is LARGER than a nanosecond," characterized as 1/705,600,000 of a moment. (For examination, a nanosecond is 1/1,000,000,000 of a moment, making a Flick approximately 1.41723356 nanoseconds in length.) 

Presently, you might stay there pondering what wasn't right with consistent seconds that Facebook needed to go and develop its own particular unit, particularly since the second is one of only a handful couple of units that is all inclusive crosswise over SI and magnificent units. The name itself is a portmanteau of the stage "outline tick," which is additionally why you should need to utilize them. Flicks are intended to help quantify singular casing span for video outline rates. So whether your video is 24hz, 25hz, 30hz, 48hz, 50hz, 60hz, 90hz, 100hz, or 120hz, you'll have the capacity to utilize Flicks to guarantee that everything is in a state of harmony while as yet utilizing entire numbers (rather than decimals). 

Software engineers as of now utilize worked in apparatuses in C++ to deal with these sorts of correct casing synchronizing, particularly with regards to planning visual impacts in CGI, yet the most correct planning conceivable in C++ is nanoseconds, which doesn't isolate equitably into most casing rates. The plan to make another unit of time to take care of this issue goes back to a year ago, when engineer Christopher Horvath posted about it on Facebook. I asked The Verge video group in the event that they figured this could really be valuable, and was informed that it could be in principle, however that things are not yet decided until the point when they can see it by and by.