One of those “buzzwords” we’ve learned to live with over the years is “24×7” (aka 24/7) which, of course, indicates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. I’ve never really liked this term, but that’s just a personal quirk. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it.

I’ve bumped into an expansion of that term that bothers me a fair bit, though. It’s cheesy, and what’s worse is that it doesn’t even make sense. If 24 is the number of hours in the day, and 7 is the number of days in the week, if you want to expand that logic then you’d have to use the number of weeks in the year, right? So where does “24×7×365” come from? Last time I checked, there aren’t over three hundred weeks in a given year. By all rights it should be “24×7×52,” and even then I wouldn’t exactly be happy with it… but it wouldn’t make me quite so actively unhappy.

I can hardly expect any sort of widespread, meaningful change just because some random nutjob on the Internet has pointed out the inherent absurdity in play. Complaining about it provides some amusement value, though.