What is a unit of time listed in MCNP6 PTRAC output file?

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Time unit in MCNP6 PTRAC
Hi everyone,

I've been trying to analyze PTRAC output file from MCNP6

here we can see the location , cell, particle, time, and so on...

My question is, I have trouble finding the unit of time listed in PTRAC, (ex, 0.30113E-02), which is hard to find in MCNP manual

My intuition is that the time unit is in milisecond, or microsecond

Does anyone know the answer of this simple question?
 
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The natural unit of time in MCNP is the shake. 1 shake is 10ns. It's a convenient scale for nuclear events and it's the right order for one generation in a chain reaction so there is a lot of history attached to it. Could that be the right for the parameter you are looking at?