[BC] Repetitively Redundant

Alan Kline akline at netins.net
Tue Sep 2 11:23:39 CDT 2008


CBS still uses the abbreviation "CNYT" (Current New York Time) on timing 
wires. I guess that's a good thing, since when I'm entering times into 
our automation, I don't want to know Yesterday's New York Time...

ak

Gary Peterson wrote:
> How about "the time, right now, is...?"  I'm always glad when the phrase
> "right now" is given along with the time.  Otherwise, I wouldn't know if the
> time check was telling me what the time was 23 minutes ago, or not. :-)




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