We sketch some of the different roles played by Whitham times in connection with averaging, adiabatic invariants, soliton theory, Hamiltonian structures, topological field theory (TFT), Seiberg–Witten (SW) theory, isomonodromy problems, Hitchin systems, WDVV and Picard–Fuchs equations, renormalization, soft supersymmetry breaking, etc.