Matthew Poole and continuators on Esther 1:13

13 Then the King said to the wise-men, which knew the times , (for so was the kings manner towards all that knew law and judgment .

Either 1. The Histories of former times, what Princes have done in such cases as this was. Or 2. Things done or to be done in time, what was just and fit to be done, or what was the Law and Iudgment in these cases, as the following words explain it, and how and when things were to be done. See my Notes on 1 Chr. 12. 32. Times are oft put in Scripture, and other Authors, for the things done in them, by a common Figure called a Metonymy of the Adjunct.

To wit, to consult with them in all matters of moment.