Was there ever another instance of anyone speaking of "business hours?"

[BurtWorm]

If someone says to you, "You've got 24 hours to pay your rent or we'll put a lock on your door," would you ask, "Do you mean 24 hours or 24 *business* hours?"

When you take lunch, is it an hour or a business hour? Or do you work 7 and a half business hours with one non-business hour off for lunch?

[Jacobin]

1. Don't start that again!!

:spank:

:popcorn:

[BurtWorm]

6. I'm not starting "that."

I'm starting "business that." There's a difference.

;)

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Snooooooore Snoooooze.

[uppityperson]

3. "your package will be delivered in 5 business days"

[Freddie Stubbs]

21. Not 40 business hours?

;)

[shadowknows69]

4. Maybe business hour are like biblical days

1=1000 years or something to that effect.

[leftofthedial]

5. tech support

[BurtWorm]

7. "We'll cure your computer of that nasty virus in a business hour

or next week, which ever comes first." ;)

[Critters2]

8. You mean like "end of business"

I get that all the time. I'm even taking an online class and we're told the assignments are due "by end of business on the given date". I assume that means 5 pm.

I tend to think "business hours" are 8am-5pm or the like.

Critters
with an assignment due by end of business tomorrow

[onenote]

9. I didn't think so, but it turns out there is. But it doesn't mean 3 days

It can mean one day. Here's a link to a case involving a state law that required information to be provided within 24 business hours of a request. In this case, the request was made at the end of the day on a Thursday. The government office in question was closed for business on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, reopening on Monday. The order in this case concludes that a response was due at the end of the day on Monday, which is not what you would expect if 24 business hours meant three busineess days. Under the reasoning of this case, 24 business hours from the Friday's alleged meeting between Fitz and Rove's counsel would have expired at the end of the day on Monday.

http://www.in.gov/pac/advisory/2001/2001fc21.html

[BurtWorm]

15. Thank you.

Not that it will do any good, but thank you!

:toast:

[Why Syzygy]

10. Interesting.

24 / 8 = 3 .. so I assumed three days. If nothing goes down tomorrow, by end of business, then we better hitch our star to another wagon.

[BurtWorm]

14. But how many business hours into tomorrow?

[Innocent Smith]

16. 3 days?

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday is 3 business days? It light of the other discussions around this whole issue that sounds about right to me. Was the 15 hour meeting last Friday 15 "regular" hours or was it 15 "business" hours. :)

[meegbear]

11. The question is are they 24 hours US or metric?

:shrug:

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Well, I know in law, at least here,

if the Rules require a response to a legal filing within less than seven days, or it might be five (I've been out of the biz for a while), you're given so many "business days" to respond. Thus, if you were served an opposition to a motion on a Thursday, and you have three days to reply, that would mean that the reply would be due on Tuesday (end of business), not Sunday (obviously) or even Monday. Business "hours" I haven't heard of.

[aquart]

13. But, honey, who said it?

None of this is direct from Fitz because Fitz don't talk.

So several somebodies retold what happened, since Leopold has at least two sources. And the likelihood is that at least one of them thought 24 hours had the most dramatic tone. Or weren't you aware of the embellishing inaccuracies of eyewitnesses?

I see this nitpicking garbage on the soap boards all the time. "SpoilerQueen said Ric would kiss Alexis on the 22nd and he only gave her a peck on the cheek on the 25th. SpoilerQueen is a liar."

[patcox2]

17. You know, your right, there is a business day, but no such thing

as business hours in that sense. Come during business hours, thats one thing. But I will be there in 24 business hours is not a usage in english, noone would ever say that when they mean 3 days. Noone. Its a desperate rationalization.

[snooper2]

19. again..

24 business hours means 12:00 noon Monday - 12:00 noon Tuesday...

Most "normal" people say COB tomorrow, (Close of Business)

the only reason for 24 business hours is if it's 2:00 on Friday afternoon, and your boss says "24 business hours", that means due on 2:00 Monday afternoon....

Anybody that would think it means 3 days is, as "Mind of Mencia" would say, are--- Der Der Der (limp hand smacking chest)

[patcox2]

20. I think its worse than you do.

I want it in one business day is one thing to say, though its rare, because people would say "tomorrow."

When people say "24 hours," they mean 24 hours. Noone ever, ever says "24 business hours." Its just not a usage that even exists, its not what people would say. If its 2 oclock friday and they want it 2 oclock monday they would say "I want it 2 oclock monday." Noone would ever say "24 business hours."

[snooper2]

22. I agree

completely, but the number of posts regarding 24 business hours is just amazing.......

[patcox2]

23. Hope springs eternal. Now you see how religions start.

Say your messiah has just been crucified. You are devastated, defeated, you can't beleive it, don't want to believe it. Ahh, but here comes the disciple Leopold, who reports that after three business days, the messiah rose from the dead! Its true, he says, I have six sources, one of them even put his hand through the wound from the lance!

And so a movement begins. Thousands of years from now there may well be the church of the Rove indictment, whose members beleive that contrary to what history says, Rove was secretly indicted, secretly tried, and secretly imprisoned.

[BlooInBloo]

18. *just enough* for it not to be a 100% laugher....

Instead it's a 99% laugher.

Just google the quoted phrase "24 business hours"

[WilliamPitt]

24. Google search for "business hours"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22business+hours%22

29,000,000 pages.

[Maddy McCall]

26. "Our business hours are from 8AM-5PM"

"You must pay your taxes during business hours at the courthouse."

So what?

[Maddy McCall]

25. Good question. It's the one I asked immediately after reading...

the first "ROVE HAS BEEN INDICTED" thread. Unfortunately, it was ignored by the OP, who, later had to post another thread on DU clarifying the very issue about which I asked questions.

I hope you get an answer. You didn't get one to the "Have you seen the documents?" question that you asked in the other thread.

:shrug:

[Maddy McCall]

27. Kick

He's still here. Why won't he answer. This is an important question, and will could be answering real questions.

Telling someone to "google search" is a deflection, not an answer.

[Maddy McCall]

28. Kick.

Also interested in seeing the question about whether or not Will has seen the document in question in the other thread.


How long would it take to say "Yes" or "No?"

:shrug:

[Texasgal]

29. He's not gonna answer you...

Too bad, I'd like to know too! :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

30. No, it's easier to rally the masses than to answer simple questions.

:hi: