A very long time ago I was an engineer doing time and motion studies in the automotive industry and we used the wink as a defined unit of time. If I remember correctly a wink is: 1/1000 of a minute it was used by industrial engineers before computers and PDTS

A very long time ago I was an engineer doing time and motion studies in the automotive industry and we used the wink as a defined unit of time.

If I remember correctly a Wink is: 1/100 of a minute it is a unit of time used by industrial engineers (before computers and PDTS). Decimal minutes made arithmetic easier. You can still buy decimal minute stopwatches for time study.