From: markspace on
Tom Anderson wrote:
> Well?
>
> It runs every day, so daily, but it runs at night, so nightly.
>
> Google has 184,000 hits for daily, and 404,000 for nightly. WebKit,
> WordPress, Mozilla, Glassfish, Adobe and CERN all call it nightly. I'm
> de facto in charge of ours, and i've consistently referred to it as the
> nightly. I've just documented it on a wiki page called NightlyBuild.
>
> The sysadmin has just set up a DNS alias called daily.shop.project.com.
>
> I'm going to have to change my documentation, aren't i?


Wrong button?

From: Arne Vajhøj on
On 23-02-2010 10:18, Tom Anderson wrote:
> Well?
>
> It runs every day, so daily, but it runs at night, so nightly.
>
> Google has 184,000 hits for daily, and 404,000 for nightly. WebKit,
> WordPress, Mozilla, Glassfish, Adobe and CERN all call it nightly. I'm
> de facto in charge of ours, and i've consistently referred to it as the
> nightly. I've just documented it on a wiki page called NightlyBuild.
>
> The sysadmin has just set up a DNS alias called daily.shop.project.com.
>
> I'm going to have to change my documentation, aren't i?

Daily and nightly does not conflict, so why bother changing anything.

Arne