NAME

niht — the sortie you're looking for is no longer available

SYNOPSIS

[sortie:]
niht [by rationale]

DESCRIPTION

niht is a standard issue offtopia(7) declaration of sortie(7) being unavailable for the recommended duration of 8 hours. Declarations should be recognized by using the sortie: prefix in a subsequent invocation. A rationale for the niht can optionally be specified. If no rationale is specified, it is assumed that the niht was due to niht, a daily recurring event in most geographic regions. The niht activity itself should not commence without a recognition, except as necessary to meet the necessary scheduling deadlines. After the niht has completed, sortie(7) will become available after a system boot which may include arbitrary initial delays such as work, mandatory life events, and wanting to do something else. The options are as follows: There are no options. Options are for malcompliance.

SEE ALSO

evening(7), offtopia(7), sortie(7), init(8)

BUGS

niht is not available all year around in all geographical regions. The duration of niht may be shortened or lengthened from time to time due to political interference such as timezones and leap seconds. The duration may be affected in practice if the real time scheduling does not meet the desired nihttime deadline, or in the event of irrational behavior such as laziness and Mondays. The rationale argument is technically an option, and as such allows malcompliance. To minimize the risk of malcompliance, the rationale should be an unique identifier that has not been used before. In the event the niht is recognized, the rationale may be preserved, or omitted if one is concerned with potential malcompliance. Recognitions should not be recognized, except as retransmissions in the event a recognition did not cause the niht activity to commence, or in cases of parse failures. Reading this manual may unnecessarily delay the niht from beginning.

HISTORY

As nortti(7) rolled back the changes to the polite nighttime declaration all the way back to old oldspeak, the phrase "good night" has now always been known as niht.