Appendix B specifying time

time specifiers are a easier (more human) way than cut options to specify points in a file.

a time specifier has the following form:

[[h:]m:]s[.ms]

where:

h

hours

m

minutes

s

seconds

ms

milliseconds

as you can see, time specifiers are easier to use but less powerful than cut options (which can also specify a point in a file in terms of bytes or frames/samples).

B.1 time slices

time slices are composed by two time specifiers designing a range (slice) of time:

begin-end

where begin and end are time specifiers. they can be not specified, meaning, respectively, the beginning and the end of the file.