Author:  SylvainLS  Posted:  Apr 24, 2021 16:25  Subject:  Re: Feature Suggestion: Imperial/Metric Units  Viewed:  45 times  Topic:  Suggestions Cancel Reply

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In Suggestions, peregrinator writes:    In Suggestions, Stuart9 writes:    It's very odd here with units, I know we are odd anyway, we still use a mixture of both. I'm of a generation that has lived through the change over, I don't have much trouble switching from one to the other, this includes our currency that changed from units of 12 to 10. We've never truly made a complete switch. I'm comfortable either way except with degrees Celsius. When my Canadian friends talk about "it was so hot today, 30 degrees" I just can't wrap my head around it. For day to day life, it’s a matter of habit, especially for temperature (metric being obviously better for everything else, because it’s decimal ). Once, in one of those forever discussions about Celsius vs. Fahreinheit, someone came with the best argument ever that Fahrenheit was obviously better: 0°F and 100°F are really useful values¹ while Celsius was about freezing and boiling water and one just needed to remember two numbers, that water froze at 32°F and boiled at 212°F. Strangely, they never answered when someone else pointed to them that, for Celsius, one just needed to remember the lowest temp you can reach with salted water is near -18°C and the blood temperature of horses is about 38°C. ¹ I’ll not comment on that usefulness nowadays… oops, it seems I just did

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Re: Feature Suggestion: Imperial/Metric Units - peregrinator (781)

[...] I'm comfortable either way except with degrees Celsius. When my Canadian friends talk about "it was so hot today, 30 degrees" I just can't wrap my head around [...] (38 months ago, Apr 24, 2021, to Suggestions)

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 Msg 1 - charliebravo (94) 38 months ago Apr 24, 2021 to Suggestions
 Msg 2 - Stuart9 (1100) 38 months ago Apr 24, 2021 to Suggestions
 Msg 3 - peregrinator (781) 38 months ago Apr 24, 2021 to Suggestions
 Msg 4 - Stuart9 (1100) 38 months ago Apr 24, 2021 to Suggestions
 Msg 5 « - SylvainLS (46) 38 months ago Apr 24, 2021 to Suggestions
 Msg 6 - Admin_Russell 38 months ago Apr 24, 2021 to Suggestions
 Msg 7 - Ziegelmeister (229) 15 months ago Feb 25, 2023 to Suggestions
 Msg 8 - SylvainLS (46) 15 months ago Feb 25, 2023 to Suggestions
 Msg 9 - peregrinator (781) 15 months ago Feb 25, 2023 to Suggestions
 Msg 10 - SylvainLS (46) 15 months ago Feb 25, 2023 to Suggestions
 Msg 11 - Ziegelmeister (229) 15 months ago Feb 25, 2023 to Suggestions
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