[Grammar] Whether/Whether or not

[Checkmate]

"Call him whether you do or don't have a time"

"Call him whether or not you have a time"

Which one is grammaticall?

 

[bhaisahab]

Neither one is correct. The second one would be OK without "a".

 

[tedmc]

'Whether or not you have time' is the same as 'whether you have or do not have time'.

not a teacher

 

[Checkmate]

"Whether you are going or not".

"Whether or not you are going".

Do they have the same meaning?

 

[Matthew Wai]

I think they mean the same, but I am not a teacher.

 

[Rover_KE]

Checkmate, you must get into the habit of ending your sentences with the appropriate punctuation mark.

 

[Matthew Wai]

http://police.pondicherry.gov.in/Po...st, procedure of arrest, and documentatio.pdf
In the above document, I found '... whether he has or has no ...' which is similar to the whether clause in my above post deleted by Rover_KE. It seems that the document was written by the Indian government, so may the clause be Indian English unacceptable in BrE/AmE?

Not a teacher.