24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ

Sat Apr 18 01:19:13 UTC 2020

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 6:09 PM Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org> wrote:
> 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.

If we're gonna do this, let's at least inform the discussion with a
few citations:

https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/24x7x365

https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/buzzword/entries/24-7-365.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24/7_service

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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