'All the time' vs 'the whole time'

[girlsallowed21]

This may be grammatically correct but is it just me who thinks it sounds weird and incorrect when people say 'all the time' instead of 'the whole time'?

For example I'd say : Have you been here the whole time?!
Instead of: Have you been here all the time?
I hear the latter a lot and it never sounds right lol.

To me,
All the time = every time
The whole time = this entire time, the duration of a time period

Tell me I'm not alone 😆

I don’t think I have ever heard them say that.. I have heard ‘all that time’ as in all of that time period.

I'd also say 'the whole time'.

I don't think 'all the time' means 'every time' though. I think it means 'very frequently, but not necessarily every single time'

I'll throw you another for the mix: "Have you been here all the while?"

"All the time" can mean habitually or constantly: she loses her glasses all the time, he is on duty all the time. So can "the whole time": she carped about the weather the whole time, he was wearing socks the whole time.