Ranter
Join devRant
Do all the things like
++ or -- rants, post your own rants, comment on others' rants and build your customized dev avatar
Sign Up
Pipeless API
From the creators of devRant, Pipeless lets you power real-time personalized recommendations and activity feeds using a simple API
Learn More
Comments
-
f03n1x65797yI feel stupid auto correct corrected what I typed it's supposed to be: asp, so my lecturer used to say asp instead of asap
-
vringar16637y@Noob Well, exact expected time of arrival makes sense to me. Have I been reading ETA wrong my entire life?
-
@vringar I'm pretty sure it's "Estimated Time of Arrival".
Still, 'exact estimated time' kind of works, you could give an approximation to the time you estimated after all...
Still kinda weird. -
Noob64667y@vringar ETA stands for "Estimated time of arrival" just as @21stCenturyJoku said.
Exact estimation may make sense in some contexts. But mostly when working with times of arrival "exact ETA" just makes no sense.
Basically it's "give me the exact, imprecise guess you have". -
@Noob If Google Maps gives me an ETA of 14:02, the approximate ETA would be 2 o' clock while the exact ETA would be 14:02.
Not that anyone would care... but it does work in most scenarios. (and if you have to change trains or something where every minute matters, it might actually make proper sense) -
Noob64667y@21stCenturyJoku that's a fair point, but it wasn't me who made up the meanings. I'm just following the rules.
Colleague: As asap as possible!
Me: ಠ_ಠ
undefined