The first is the shop's own per-hour labor rate. The second is book time.. A shop's labor rate is the hourly rate it charges for work. The term book time refers to the average amount of time it takes to perform a particular automotive repair or maintenance job.
Record-Setting Weather in Europe. Hottest. The temperature reached 48 C (118.4 F) in both Athens and Elefsina, Greece on July 10, 1977, setting the official European record high. There's also an unofficial record of the temperature climbing to 50 C (122 F) in Seville, Spain on August 4, 1881.
Statewide, the record high temperature is 118, set most recently at Ice Harbor Dam on Aug. 5, 1961. In the U.S., the hottest temperature ever was at Greenland Ranch in California (in Death Valley), where it hit 134 on July 10, 1913. The world record is 136 degrees set at El Azizia, Libya on Sept. 13, 1922.