-respectively. The suffix is not case sensitive. If prefixed with '0x', the
-value is assumed to be base 16 (hexadecimal). A suffix may include a trailing 'b',
-for instance 'kb' is identical to 'k'. You can specify a base 10 value
-by using 'KiB', 'MiB', 'GiB', etc. This is useful for disk drives where
-values are often given in base 10 values. Specifying '30GiB' will get you
-30*1000^3 bytes.
+respectively. If prefixed with '0x', the value is assumed to be base 16
+(hexadecimal). A suffix may include a trailing 'b', for instance 'kb' is
+identical to 'k'. You can specify a base 10 value by using 'KiB', 'MiB','GiB',
+etc. This is useful for disk drives where values are often given in base 10
+values. Specifying '30GiB' will get you 30*1000^3 bytes.
+When specifying times the default suffix meaning changes, still denoting the
+base unit of the value, but accepted suffixes are 'D' (days), 'H' (hours), 'M'
+(minutes), 'S' Seconds, 'ms' (or msec) milli seconds, 'us' (or 'usec') micro
+seconds. Time values without a unit specify seconds.
+The suffixes are not case sensitive.