diff --git a/stdlib-candidate/std-rfc/bench.nu b/stdlib-candidate/std-rfc/bench.nu
index 3c822ef..aa38956 100644
--- a/stdlib-candidate/std-rfc/bench.nu
+++ b/stdlib-candidate/std-rfc/bench.nu
@@ -5,17 +5,13 @@ use ./math
 
 # convert an integer amount of nanoseconds to a real duration
 def "from ns" [
-    --units: string # units to convert duration to (min, sec, ms, µs, ns)
-    --sign-digits: int # a number of first non-zero digits to keep (default 4; set 0 to disable rounding)
+    --sign-digits: int = 4 # a number of first non-zero digits to keep (default 4; set 0 to disable rounding)
 ] {
     if $sign_digits == 0 {} else {
         math significant-digits $sign_digits
     }
     | $"($in)ns"
     | into duration
-    | if $units != null {
-        format duration $units
-    } else {}
 }
 
 # run a piece of `nushell` code multiple times and measure the time of execution.
@@ -33,7 +29,6 @@ def "from ns" [
 #
 # > **Note**
 # > `std bench --pretty` will return a `string`.
-# > the `--units` option will convert all durations to strings
 #
 # # Examples
 #     measure the performance of simple addition
@@ -46,18 +41,9 @@ def "from ns" [
 #     ╰──────┴───────────╯
 #
 #     get a pretty benchmark report
-#     > std bench {1 + 2} --pretty
+#     > bench {1 + 2} --pretty
 #     922ns +/- 2µs 40ns
 #
-#     format results as `ms`
-#     > bench {sleep 0.1sec; 1 + 2} --units ms --rounds 5
-#     ╭──────┬───────────╮
-#     │ mean │ 104.90 ms │
-#     │ min  │ 103.60 ms │
-#     │ max  │ 105.90 ms │
-#     │ std  │ 0.75 ms   │
-#     ╰──────┴───────────╯
-#
 #     measure the performance of simple addition with 1ms delay and output each timing
 #     > bench {sleep 1ms; 1 + 2} --rounds 2 --list-timings | table -e
 #     ╭───────┬─────────────────────╮
@@ -75,9 +61,7 @@ export def main [
     --rounds (-n): int = 50  # the number of benchmark rounds (hopefully the more rounds the less variance)
     --verbose (-v) # be more verbose (namely prints the progress)
     --pretty # shows the results in human-readable format: "<mean> +/- <stddev>"
-    --units: string # units to convert duration to (min, sec, ms, µs, ns)
     --list-timings # list all rounds' timings in a `times` field
-    --sign-digits: int = 4 # a number of first non-zero digits to keep (default 4; set 0 to disable rounding)
 ] {
     let times = seq 1 $rounds
         | each {|i|
@@ -88,16 +72,16 @@ export def main [
     if $verbose { print $"($rounds) / ($rounds)" }
 
     {
-        mean: ($times | math avg | from ns --units $units --sign-digits=$sign_digits)
-        min: ($times | math min | from ns --units $units --sign-digits=$sign_digits)
-        max: ($times | math max | from ns --units $units --sign-digits=$sign_digits)
-        std: ($times | math stddev | from ns --units $units --sign-digits=$sign_digits)
+        mean: ($times | math avg | from ns --sign-digits 4)
+        min: ($times | math min | from ns --sign-digits 4)
+        max: ($times | math max | from ns --sign-digits 4)
+        std: ($times | math stddev | from ns --sign-digits 4)
     }
     | if $pretty {
         $"($in.mean) +/- ($in.std)"
     } else {
         if $list_timings {
-            merge { times: ($times | each { from ns  --units $units --sign-digits 0 }) }
+            merge { times: ($times | each { from ns --sign-digits 0 }) }
         } else {}
     }
 }
diff --git a/stdlib-candidate/tests/bench.nu b/stdlib-candidate/tests/bench.nu
index 0e2c41f..815b6af 100644
--- a/stdlib-candidate/tests/bench.nu
+++ b/stdlib-candidate/tests/bench.nu
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 use std assert
 use ../std-rfc bench
 
-export def "test bench-units" [] {
-    let $test = bench {sleep 0.001sec; 1 + 2} --units ns --rounds 2 | get mean
-    assert str contains $test " ns"
-}
-
 export def "test bench-timings" [] {
     let $test = bench {1 + 2} --rounds 3 --list-timings | get times | length
     assert equal $test 3
@@ -15,8 +10,3 @@ export def "test bench-pretty" [] {
     let $test = (bench {1 + 2} --rounds 3 --pretty) =~ '\d.* \+/- \d'
     assert equal $test true
 }
-
-export def "test bench-sign-digits" [] {
-    let $test = bench {sleep 1ms} --sign-digits 1 --rounds 5 | get min
-    assert equal $test 1ms
-}