Rich. I am truly sorry. 💖 also this was great thank you. -Ben
> On Apr 17, 2020, at 6:09 PM, Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> wrote: > > (since it's Friday and we're all stressed) > > I can't believe that out of everything I wrote that we're going to discuss > the semantics of this, but then again: yes I can. I should have known. > I should have known. I. Should. Have. Known. *bangs head on desk* > *reaches for scotch* Alrighty then: > > 24x7 means every hour of the week, as in "24 by 7". > > 24x365 means every hour of the year. (modulo those with 366 days > but please let's not go there because this is bad enough) > (oh wait, too late, someone upthread already went there) > (and then leap seconds reared their ugly head, oh good grief) > > 24x7x365 thus means every hour of 7 years. YES, I know, I know. > > 60x24x7...no. NO. I will not go there. Nor will you. Just stop. > I swear I will turn this car around *right now*. > > Yeah, I know it's in common use. Like any number of other things in > common use (e.g., "going forward" -- really? like there's another > direction to go?) it's...annoying. > > I suspect that someone who just wasn't thinking started this in an > attempt to out-promote people who merely said 24x7 or 24x365, and it > propagated outwards. If that hypothesis is correct and there is thus > a patient 0 for this epidemic, I very much want to find them and pummel > them with a bag of Oxford commas. > > ----rsk