The role :time is used for two purposes:

1. for a general event, to capture when the event happened (or will happen)
2. within the context of a date-entity, the specific time in 24-hour notation such as "18:00"

Example:  "The killing took place yesterday ."
     (k / kill-01
           :time (y / yesterday))

Example:  "The nation defaulted after the war ."
     (d / default-01
           :ARG1 (n / nation)
           :time (a / after
                 :op1 (w / war)))

Example:  "the earlier plan"
     (p / plan
           :time (b / before))

Example:  "Wednesday, February 29, 2012, at 4:30pm PST"
     (d / date-entity :month 2 :day 29 :year 2012 :time "16:30" :timezone "PST"
           :weekday (w / wednesday))

Example:  "America was discovered several hundred years ago."
     (d / discover-01
           :ARG1 (c / continent :wiki "Americas"
                 :name (n / name :op1 "America"))
           :time (b / before
                 :op1 (n2 / now)
                 :quant (s / several
                       :op1 (t / temporal-quantity :quant 100
                             :unit (y / year)))))

Click here for more examples such as

• 100 years ago   (= 100 years before now)
• in 20 minutes   (= 20 minutes after now)
• in the last three years   (= during the 3 years after now)
• during the next two years   (= during the 2 years before now)
• in the two months after the murder (= during the 2 years after the murder)

Not :time

• :duration   forever, for two minutes (how long?)
• :frequency   twice, 100 times (how often?)
• :mod   again, for the first time

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