Not a very
And of course short as the opposite of long.
Sometimes
a short period of time that is available for a particular activity (LDOCE)
but without more context I'm not sure it fits your situation.
Or one can just quantify time as an uncountable noun:
- we won't have much time (look for definition 5)
- there won't be a lot of time
I can't think of any English term that is regularly used for this – at least, not in a noun form.
As Steve Ives mentioned in his answer, this is how I would ask the question:
What time are you leaving?
The term departure time is grammatically correct, but that expression is normally reserved for transportation: planes, trains, and busses. And it generally refers to the time that the conveyance departs (everyone knows that passengers must arrive earlier than that so they can all board before departure.)
If you want to tell your friends that you'll be leaving the campus at 5 o'clock, you'd say something like:
I should be leaving the campus around five.
or:
I should be done at the campus around five.
You'd only use departure time if you were trying to be funny by making something ordinary (i.e., leaving the campus) sound very official:
My departure time from campus will be 5 o'clock.
I could say a father saying this to his young children, if they were leaving for a trip the next day:
Our departure time will be 8 AM.
but that would be overly formal and therefore deliberately humorous. A more natural way to say it would be:
I want us to get out of here by eight.
or:
Let's be pulling out of the driveway before 8 AM.
The same holds for arrival time. We typically say something like:
We should be there a little before 10.
not:
We have a 9:55 estimated arrival time.
unless we are trying to be somewhat humorous by being overly technical.
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The way I would most likely use time-slots is as follows: