Time served is also a term used to indicate a craftsman has spent the required period as an apprentice.
Famous quotes containing the words time and/or served:
“I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)