I knew I was wrong Wrote:
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> I was very much aware that the current names
> (days) of the required inspections are different
> today than they were in the days of steam. Fact
> remains the day interval is almost the same and
> requirements of the inspections, though not
> identical are very much the same today as they
> were in the days of steam. See.... I’m usually
> wrong!!!

The difference is that today we only count in service time, whereas before the emphasis was on out of service time.

Yiday, if you fire up on one day and kill it That same day, you have used one day. Back then, if you fired up one day and killed it the same day, you used an entire month.