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Russkiy Bear Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Downtime (Computers and people)

I know I can say I'm having downtime.
How would you say it about a computer (system). It has/ it's on downtime every night from 2 till 5?
  

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The system is taken down from 2-5 am for maintenance.

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The system is taken down from 2-5 am for maintenance.
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I don't mean maintenance

I mean uptime and downtime terms.
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The computer has scheduled downtime every night from 2 until 5.
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Russkiy BearI mean uptime and downtime terms.
Maintenance is the usual reason for taking a site offline for a while.
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KJinCali79

Can't I say: the computer is on downtime every night from 2 until 5.?
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Russkiy BearCan't I say: the computer is on downtime every night from 2 until 5.?
In my opinion no. You can say the computer is offline every night.

Downtime is not typically used with the preposition "on."

Some reasons why this may be so, could be that "downtime" itself is formed, in part, from another preposition "down." Or it could be b
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