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Post #AuTzMYrx12DQ0TYdF2 by [email protected] |
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Why do people still pander to America by converting to imperial measurements an… |
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@joannejacobs And times, too. Americans announce when something is going to hap… |
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Also: let's use a logical date system of small amounts of time (days) follo… |
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@joannejacobs One of the most striking examples of this nonsense was watching t… |
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@joannejacobs Strangely, the official definition of many US customary units is … |
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@jwi indeed. In fact the scientific community is pretty much converted. Except … |
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@joannejacobs @jwi Aviation uses feet and nautical miles because there are conv… |
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@NewtonMark @jwi I suspect the Rule of Three in aviation for instance could eas… |
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@joannejacobs @jwi “Just” is doing some heavy lifting there.We use nautical… |
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@NewtonMark @joannejacobs @jwi particularly with nautical miles, finger distanc… |
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@joannejacobs As an American i think y'all need to stop converting units fo… |
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@joannejacobs I refuse to use non-SI units.People who want to use deprecated 5t… |
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@kkarhan @joannejacobs And any errors occurring will be paid for by them. |
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Post #AuUAUASmjsx67qcG2K by [email protected] |
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@alterelefant @joannejacobs precisely that...I'd rather use °K & mol t… |
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@kkarhan @alterelefant @joannejacobs oooh, I saw a fun one recently. Torque wre… |
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@viq @kkarhan @alterelefant @joannejacobs Britain (which mostly went metric fro… |
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@vfrmedia @viq @kkarhan @alterelefant @joannejacobs I live in America and I'… |
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@RnDanger @viq @kkarhan @alterelefant @joannejacobs metric feet have been used … |
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@vfrmedia @RnDanger @viq @alterelefant @joannejacobs "metric feet" ma… |
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@kkarhan @vfrmedia @RnDanger @viq @joannejacobs I have never heard of the metri… |
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@alterelefant @kkarhan @vfrmedia @viq @joannejacobs I think that's the corr… |
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@joannejacobs Or use the International Date standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/… |
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@anagnostes @joannejacobs ...and works with a simple text sort! |
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@joannejacobs i liked yyyymmdd for storing data and files! |
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@MorpheusB I totally do the same thing. All my files are YMD |
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@joannejacobs is good. When i started programming latish 70s, always used 4 dig… |
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@MorpheusB ha! Future proofing can confuse people. |
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@joannejacobs it most certainly did. |
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@joannejacobs @NewtonMark @jwi For that part I'd better leave the system un… |
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@joannejacobs Britain is also on Imperial measurements, which is silly. They we… |
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@philbetts @joannejacobs there was a consultation to allow a return to imperial… |
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@clare_hooley @philbetts @joannejacobs in the UK people seem to use a mix of bo… |
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@marjolica @philbetts @joannejacobs I was mainly talking legal use such as what… |
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@marjolica @philbetts @joannejacobs as it happens, I did buy something in a 2 g… |
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@clare_hooley @marjolica @joannejacobs oh, for sure, metric weights have taken … |
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@joannejacobs true, but there have been some major incidents due to confusion o… |
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@philbetts it's really not though. I lived in London for 4.5 years. Other t… |
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@joannejacobs aren't speed limits and distances imperial? |
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@joannejacobs Or the reverse?We do time as hours (biggest), minutes then second… |
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@NewtonMark @jwi doesn't mean we shouldn't change it though. |
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@anagnostes I'm quite happy to use the year-month-date model and indeed I d… |
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@kkarhan @joannejacobs IS-units make sense, anything else is just making things… |
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@joannejacobs @jwi To what end? What does it help? |
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@NewtonMark @jwi it helps with ensuring that all systems are in sync. |
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@joannejacobs @jwi You’ll need to start with that power-of-ten grid reference… |
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@jwi again, there's no need for it. It's only preserved as a result of … |
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@joannejacobs I prefer ISO date of yyyy-mm-dd which makes sorting very easy and… |
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@kkarhan @alterelefant 😍 |
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@stuartl @joannejacobs if americans want american date, we can americanify the … |
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@ajft @joannejacobs Or to really get up the nose of the yanks…Give the time i… |
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@anagnostes @joannejacobs I have noticed that lots of medications have the ISO … |
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@joannejacobs And if badly thought through serrious accidents will happen, one … |
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@joannejacobs I'll disagree here with part of that, RFC3339 for dates (and … |
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@joannejacobs I agree 100%! |
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@stuartl totally okay with that! |
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@marjolica @clare_hooley @joannejacobs and most importantly, the Warhammer batt… |
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@clare_hooley @philbetts @joannejacobs we are old. We have a lot of old cook bo… |
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@clare_hooley @philbetts @joannejacobs needless to say UK gallons (4.5 L), as u… |
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@philbetts ooh good question. Dunno. Never drove there. |
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@NewtonMark @joannejacobs @jwi Similarly quilting/patchwork- it works in inche… |
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@SBJSMum @anagnostes @joannejacobs yep easiest way to move forward with no acci… |
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@alterelefant happy with that too! |
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@anagnostes @joannejacobs With you on everything:I pissed off a large percentag… |
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@joannejacobs (cough)yyyymmdd(cough) 🙂 |
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@que @SBJSMum @joannejacobs Precisely. |
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@viq also quite happy with the largest to smallest framework and I personally u… |
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@alterelefant @kkarhan 💯 |
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@joannejacobs @alterelefant I do accept abbreviations like °C & kg because… |
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@marjolica @clare_hooley @joannejacobs what also makes it fun is that because A… |
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@joannejacobs In IT we only use ISO-date, anything else is just asking for trou… |
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@joannejacobs Interesting fact, the currently used imperial measurements are de… |
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@alterelefant oh good grief. |
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@joannejacobs I'm in imports in the USA. We have to convert imperial weight… |
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@timgatewood well that's true. It may well be that the US gets dragged into… |
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@philbetts @joannejacobs speeds are in mph. Distances are in miles. But exit no… |
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@joannejacobs It was the church who stopped the French succeeding, and probably… |
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@lopta @anagnostes @joannejacobs This guy knows what it's about, everyone |
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@kkarhan @alterelefant @joannejacobs Actually it's not °K, it's only K. |
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@1000millimeter @kkarhan @alterelefant @joannejacobs Thanks, that bugs me too. … |
