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@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 ** xref:tls_server_verification.adoc[]
 ** xref:pod_placement.adoc[]
 ** xref:overrides.adoc[]
+** xref:duration.adoc[]
 ** xref:operations/index.adoc[]
 *** xref:operations/cluster_operations.adoc[]
 *** xref:operations/pod_placement.adoc[]
diff --git a/modules/concepts/pages/duration.adoc b/modules/concepts/pages/duration.adoc
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+= Duration format
+
+:rust-duration-max: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/time/struct.Duration.html#associatedconstant.MAX
+:go-std-time: https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.21.2:src/time/format.go;l=1589
+:k8s-cr: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/api-extension/custom-resources/
+:go: https://go.dev/
+
+All Stackable operators use a human-readable duration format. It very closely resembles the format used by the {go}[Go] programming language - which Kubernetes uses internally.
+Every duration field of a {k8s-cr}[CustomResource], for example, the xref:trino:usage-guide/operations/graceful-shutdown.adoc[`spec.workers.roleConfig.gracefulShutdownTimeout`] field, supports this format.
+There is no official format specification, but the source code of {go-std-time}[`time.ParseDuration`] in the Go standard library can be used as an implementation reference.
+
+The format looks like this: `15d18h34m42s`.
+xref:trino:index.adoc[Trino], for example, uses it in the following way:
+
+[source,yaml]
+----
+# ...
+spec:
+  workers:
+    roleConfig:
+      gracefulShutdownTimeout: 15d18h34m42s
+----
+
+Valid time units are: `d`, `h`, `m`, `s`, and `ms`.
+Separating the duration fragments, which is a tuple of time value and time unit (`15d`), by spaces is **not** supported and will result in an error.
+The maximum amount of time which can safely be represented without precision loss or integer overflow is 584,942,417,355 years.
+See {rust-duration-max}[here] for more information.