Specious Present

Not to be confused with Before Present, whose epoch is that of the domains time standard and could be called the Authentic or Radiologic Present.

Point of Departure

The term dates to the late 19th Century as discussed in the enwiki article.

DCP DTE / DCE Discourse

• The specious present is the time frame of a DCP discourse episode with a user from the first prompt by a DCP agent until the MCS channel disconnects, and more specifically the Now Sentence.

I dont want detail on this in the wild so it was moved to The Long Now.