Thank you Atropos, I don't need to check my dictionary. Might I suggest you check yours and consider whether I was in fact being anti-anachronistic?
Or perhaps whether I was being anachronistic or not depends, in this instance, upon your reading of that which is 'in-time'. I submit that as current published advice and instruction including my company's Manuals indicates that the use of niceties in the flight deck should be avoided, I am very much in keeping with the time. You may wish to criticise that advice as being out-of-time, and could possibly twist the term in an effort to do so, but I don't feel that this would be a winnable argument... Are you suggesting that many authors of Ops Manuals are out of step with curent safe practice?