Information Is BeautifulMeasurement unit differences between the U.S.A. and most of the world.
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smeg@infobeautiful ISO8601 or bust
AlexanderVIAll temperatures in Kelvin or what are we even doing here?
Kevin RussellFahrenheit is a tariff. It exists only as a block to trade.
IBBoard@infobeautiful This video should be relevant (but Cartoon Network have since blocked the UK from watching it, and YouTube doesn't like Tor, so I can't confirm)
Learning the Systems | Teen Titans GO! | Cartoon Network
Jo - pièce de résistance@infobeautiful ISO standard for dates which make the most sense for archives, receipts, forms, and file naming is Year, Month, Day (with year first.)
So I think the graphic on right is inverse. But otherwise yes.
Unless you live in #Canada in which case it’s all of them. Weather is Celsius, cooking temperature is Fahrenheit, roads are km but sewing is yards & inches. It’s all over the place here.
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Chris@JoBlakely @infobeautiful d-m-y makes the most sense for planning things ("are you free on the 16th?" where if no month stated implies the same month). for this reason also has a small benefit when putting the date on a letter.
HollieK@JoBlakely @infobeautiful UK also does weather in Celsius, cooking temperatures in Fahrenheit, but roads in miles, height in feet and inches, and weight in stone and pounds. 1 stone = 14 pounds.
Tattered@HollieK72 @JoBlakely @infobeautiful I remember, pre-Brexit, buying fuel in liters to drive distances measured in miles, so fuel consumption in miles/litre…
Your Future Ex@infobeautiful Soz, but day-month-year is not "Rest of the World", but just "Some Other Parts of the World", e.g. we're using year-month-day, as per ISO 8601 (we use . as the date separator, not the standard -, but that's another issue).
Breizh@yourfutureex @infobeautiful Well, year-month-day or day-month-year is more or less the same thing and stay logical.
While nothing can justify month-day-year (or year-day-month in the other way).
Rickyx@breizh @yourfutureex @infobeautiful I agree.
On handwritten letters it is usual to day-month-year, on pc a lot of people start files with year-month-day so they are ordered.
But the concept is equal, like "big Endian" or "little Endian"...
On handwritten letters it is usual to day-month-year, on pc a lot of people start files with year-month-day so they are ordered.
But the concept is equal, like "big Endian" or "little Endian"...
Nazo@infobeautiful I've never understood why people are so... hostile towards the idea of just using stuff that makes sense...
I say this as an American...
I go ahead and used standardized units where I'm able. (For example, I can use Celsius for temperatures, but it's very hard to use kilometers for distance or speed because it's not even marked and I'd have to do mental conversions constantly.)
People are actually hostile towards just having measurements make sense and be easy...
I still struggle to remember how many ounces in a pint vs a gallon. Don't even get me started on things like recipes... How many feet are in a mile? "A lot."
Daniel Reif@nazokiyoubinbou @infobeautiful the confusion is intended? Obeying the imperial units as an act of rebellion against logic and government?
@3fAltonHaHa @infobeautiful I feel like we have a lot of an attitude of basically just refusing to use something like that because it's better. We didn't come up with it, so it should be abolished as an abomination.
It sure as heck wasn't a rebellion against the government. The government made almost no effort at all even to aid the switch.
There is a bit of a general hatred of logic and reason in this country though, I will concede. That is definitely something I've observed all too painfully throughout my life.
Heliograph@infobeautiful never not #weirdos
Garrett@infobeautiful I love metrics enough to use KPH as an American driving in the US, but this argument for Fahrenheit is pretty convincing.
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@heygarrett @infobeautiful Celsius:
- -10°: too cold
- 0°: ice
- 10°: cool
- 20°: pleasant
- 30°: hot
- 40°: too hot
mirabilos@infobeautiful @heygarrett km/h, not kph and especially not KPH (units and præficēs are case-sensitive)
(and no, it isn’t, you just use steps of 10 or even 5 for Kelvin/Celsius)
@mirabilos TIL, thanks. Though Wikipedia does list km/h as an SI abbreviation and kph as a non-SI abbreviation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@heygarrett yes, because it is in use in america; doesn’t mean it’s good ;)
@mirabilos You were right! I guess I've never looked specifically at the unit while driving. 😅
HTPC NZ@infobeautiful ah "MAGA units" only maggots and pedo in chief understand, all while believing 1/4 is bigger than 1/3.
Owl Eyes@infobeautiful the Imperial measurement system is a dog's breakfast when you have #autism @autistics
Platypusman@infobeautiful Everywhere: Day = 24 hours, or 1440 minutes, or 84,600 seconds; Compass = 360 degrees, 21,600 minutes, 1,404,000 seconds
@Dawilson999 @infobeautiful base-60 that makes sense for round things and has been in use since babylonian times, fwiw, but if you hate it, you can use gon
@mirabilos Very good point, although I think the unit of measure for time is what really screws up the metric system, or SI as universal standards. Perhaps if there were twenty hours in a day?
@Dawilson999 people tried decimal time before, in various ways. It just doesn’t work, the maths doesn’t work for it.
Metric does not mean 100% decadic. The ways time and positions on circles/globes are measured is hexadecadic but still regular, which the imperialistic units are not.
@Dawilson999 that being said, countries that do not use the american imperialistic units generally have higher literacy, so perhaps we see no problem with the hexadecadic system for such cases.
@mirabilos That sounds like correlation to me. There are plenty of intelligent people still using imperialistic units. That’s what conversion calculators and computers are for.
@Dawilson999 uhm… you know, we do it in the head