Meaning a person of high rank or distinction is attested from c.1500 in English; as a longer way to say person, the word was in use from 1550s (but often slyly ironical, with suggestion that the subject is overly self-important).
If your system is standalone, the default sync interval for system time is 604800 seconds (7 days). If you are in a domain environment, the default sync interval is 3600 seconds (0.04166667 days). If you are using XP Pro, you can adjust your settings using Group Policy editor (GPedit - Administrative Templates\System\Windows Time Service\Time Providers) or you can adjust things through a registry edit (works for any version of XP).
The National Basketball Association, or NBA, allows for six full-length timeouts in the span of a game in addition to a single, 20-second timeout per half. The length of time that a full-length timeout lasts varies based on when the timeout is called. While confusing, NBA rules mandate that a certain number of timeouts be taken each period for commercial purposes. Any NBA-mandated timeouts last 100 seconds, while non-mandated timeouts last 60 seconds. For instance, in each of the first and third periods, the NBA mandates that there be two 100-second timeouts.Whichever team calls the first and second timeouts will automatically receive the timeout at a 100-second length.