Talk:24x7x365

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It seems that you do not want me to put edits in regarding 24x7x365 with the text shown below.

When I first did a search on 24x7x365 nothing showed up hence I created a new page. Now you keep redirecting the page to 24/7

The text I had input is different in terminology and context to the 24/7 page and has important differentiators.

I would like the text for 24x7x365 to appear on wikipedia. Maybe you want me to edit the 24/7 page to add in my text, but just to remove the text and then redirect to something that does nto state the same information is unacceptable.

I had even teried putting the text back into an edit on 24x7x365 with a cross reference link to the 24/7 which again someone immediately removed.

Please show me how to fix this issue.

In the world of Information Technology, the term 24x7x365 is often used to refer to 24 hours per day by 7 days per week by 365 days per year.

The term however is incorrect and should be noted as either 24x7 referring to every hour of the day for the full 7 days of the week, or 24x365 referring to every hour of the day for the full 365 days of the year.

Some people may also suggest that 24x365 is incorrect as it does not allow for leap years which should be defined as 24x366.

Whilst this may be considered nit picking, these factors become extremely important when negotiating SLAs and contract terms.

A day with a leap year and an SLA of 24x365 would allow a complete 24 hours of downtime and still meet the SLA. This could be billions of dollars of transactions that are lost and yet acceptable under the contract.

The suggestion is that 24x7 is the only correct terminology that would provide a service that is "ON ALL THE TIME".

Other terminology that is used is 24/7 or 24/7/365. These may be widely used but are mathematically incorrect. The "/" suggests divide, which for 24/7 means a total of 3.428 days of uptime in every full 7 day week (i.e. just less than 50%, which is not exactly what is meant by the term. Again, everyone knows what is meant by the termionology, but from a contractual and SLA point of view is totally incorrect.

Remember to use 24x7 as the most suitable terminology for "ON ALL THE TIME".


 * The problem is that your content is basically opinion based, not factual, and constitutes unreferenced original research. I don't particularly object to mentioning the technical distinction between 24/7 and 24/7/365 in the 24/7 article, but only if you can provide a reliable source that indicates that this sort of problem with an SLA has ever arisen, or at least that some expert in the field has noted the potential problems. As for the whole '/' vs. 'x' thing, that's getting way too pedantic, and relying on a mathematical definition in a non-mathematical context. &mdash;ShadowRanger (talk 18:30, 24 December 2009 (UTC)