>My understanding of Mike´s sentences per se is: >The schedules did not run untill 02:41. >The schedules may have run later, >but Mike is either not sure about or not exact at this point. > >Your understanding is: the schedules did run at 02:41. >Is this fully clear from Mike´s sentences?
Normally, if one says that something did not happen UNTIL 02:41, that means that it happened at 02:41. If something did not happen at 02:41, then one might say that it had not happened BY 02:41. (But then where would the idea of the 02:41 time have come from?) If you didn't know if the scheduled backup (not the schedules themselves) had run, you would probably say that at 02:41 it still had not run, or it had not run by the 02:41 deadline (assuming that time was known to be some sort of deadline). Or one could say that it did not happen until 02:41 or later. Saying "until" (without additional qualification) would imply, to the normal reader, that it actually did happen at that time. - seb
