From kde-core-devel  Fri Sep 20 21:31:54 2002
From: Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:31:54 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [RFC] SI Units in KDE
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103255753421208

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On Friday September 20, 2002 02:22, Ryan Cumming wrote:
> On September 20, 2002 14:12, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > As for configurability, make the defaults set automatically by country
> > instead of in KControl for all I care.  Just keep your SI out of
> > America.
>
> It's somewhat interesting to note that the USA has had SI as its
> official measurement system since 1875. That's why things such as the
> CIA World Factbook are 100% metric. However, it has been somewhat less
> successful at the metric switchover than some other countries. ;)

The CIA Factbook uses metric because its maintainers choose to use SI, not 
because any government policy requires it.  If there were such a policy, 
then laws governing things like automobiles wouldn't use pounds and tons,  
and the 70s fad of converting highway signs to km wouldn't have ended.   
:-)

Any further discussion down this line would be better discussed on 
kde-cafe@ofb.biz, I think.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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