Log in/out vs Log on/off

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Hello,

I'm not an English native person. Could you tell me the difference between log in, log out, log on, log off?

You probably know the code analysis of Visual Studio suggest me to rename my log in method by log on... why? Most of website I visit use log in?

Thank you,

Posted 29-Jul-14 20:00pm

Bastien Vandamme

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Mehdi Gholam · Answer 1 · 2014-07-29T20:12:00

Solution 1

on/off usually imply power on/off as well, where as in/out don't, and you can do it multiple times.

Posted 29-Jul-14 20:12pm

Mehdi Gholam

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Abhinav S 30-Jul-14 2:29am

5! Good point.

Abhinav S · Answer 2 · 2014-07-29T20:31:00

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Log in sounds grammatically more correct.
Interesting read here[^].

Posted 29-Jul-14 20:31pm

Abhinav S

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