botime

Botime is a term used in online discussions and software contexts to refer to time aspects associated with automated agents or bots. It is not a single, standardized concept; rather, it covers several related ideas about how time is represented, tracked, or simulated for bots. In practice, botime may denote an internal clock that a bot uses to schedule actions and manage pacing, a timestamp or time source attached to bot-generated events for logging and data processing, or a virtual time mechanism used in testing and simulation to run bot behavior deterministically. The meaning of botime can vary between projects and communities, leading to different interpretations of what constitutes the "bot's time." In cybersecurity or network contexts, discussions about botime may touch on the timing of command-and-control communications in botnets or automated scanning tools. Etymology-wise, botime is typically described as a portmanteau of bot and time, sometimes framed as a form of virtual time. See also virtual time, timestamps, timekeeping in computing, and botnet concepts.