Sorry I can't resist...

If you're going for accuracy, does 24x365 mean you close one day this year?   Or should you actually be saying 24x365.25, or even more accurately 24x365.2425 (but still not exact).

Oh wait, we missed the leap seconds in there, which there isn't any real way to average out since they occur at semi-random intervals.    So I don't know what we should adjust the 24 to...

I just look at 24x7x365 as shorthand for "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year", which is a common saying meaning always open.   It isn't a mathematical formula.   It doesn't have to be exact or make mathematical sense.  

There are lots of things that if you think about too hard they don't make sense.  The one this week I thought about was "hunger benefit".   Does that mean we're raising money to increase hunger?  One could go on and on trying to correct logical inconsistencies in our use of language.   It's fun on occasion to point them out, but saying that something has to be corrected just because it doesn't make logical or mathematical sense just seems as sill as some of the phrases that we laugh about being logically inconsistent.




On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:35 AM Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
24x7 is way more common, but does leave ambiguity as to holiday coverage. (there are some 24x7 businesses that close for holidays).

24x7x365 is on the rise as a way to specify that you’re open holidays too.

End of the day, I’m not sure it matters which one you use.

Likely any Google search for 24x7 would return the superset {24x7,24x7x365} while a search for 24x7x365 would return the subset {24x7x365}.

IANASEOE, but I suspect that in terms of SEO and general search, you’re probably better off with 24x7x365.

Owen


On Apr 16, 2020, at 01:25 , Mike Hale <eyeronic.design@gmail.com> wrote:

No.  24x7x365 is fine.  Sheesh.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 10:10 PM Ben Cannon <ben@6by7.net> wrote:
So I’m taking this thread for a total test-drive and we’re going down this random ally...

I call our NOC “24x7x365”  I hear that in my head as “twenty-four (hour) - BY - Seven (days a week) - BY - 365 (days a year, indicating we don’t close on any holidays).

Is that really not a thing?  I swear I’ve been hearing it as a term of art in the industry for 20 years.    Google has 1.42m results for 24x7x365 - but 72mil for 24x7.

Should I change my website or what?

Thanks for indulging me :)

-Ben.


-Ben Cannon
CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 



On Apr 15, 2020, at 5:45 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:

Your home page says that you have 24x7x365 support.

(Which is wrong, by the way.  It's either 24x7 or 24x365
or maybe 24x7x52 depending on what you're trying to express.
There is no such thing as 24x7x365.  But let's press on:)

(Rich’s excellent critique deleted for brevity)
---rsk





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