When showing the weather, Apple does not display 65, 67, or 69°. They get their weather in Celsius, and converting it to Fahrenheit does not result in those numbers, although -69° is possible. This may have been corrected in OS 15. There are several videos on YouTube about this.
You have countries that use the metric system and then you have countries that have been to the moon.
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So round up/down.
What's a degree or two between friends?
(Not one of my worries...)
tradio wrote:
You have countries that use the metric system and then you have countries that have been to the moon.
You have every country using metric EXCEPT the one that has been to the moon. And I bet the calculations that got it to the moon were in metric ! The last bastion of a non-metric system is you ! The average, older American citizen who has lost the plot (unable to change).
I first went to the US 44 years ago. The US govt was talking about moving to metric then. Finally most American stuff is now metric. Your currency is metric ! Why did you stop there ? Even the distance indicators to Mexico are now in metric for some considerable distance from the border on the US side. Stop being so stubborn and change ! Although it is too late now. The USA will always be known as the last to accept the inevitable change to metric.
chrissybabe wrote:
You have every country using metric EXCEPT the one that has been to the moon. And I bet the calculations that got it to the moon were in metric ! The last bastion of a non-metric system is you ! The average, older American citizen who has lost the plot (unable to change).
I first went to the US 44 years ago. The US govt was talking about moving to metric then. Finally most American stuff is now metric. Your currency is metric ! Why did you stop there ? Even the distance indicators to Mexico are now in metric for some considerable distance from the border on the US side. Stop being so stubborn and change ! Although it is too late now. The USA will always be known as the last to accept the inevitable change to metric.
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Sad to say, it is not inevitable. The first few gas stations that made the switch suffered huge drop in business and had to switch back. So it will not happen in commerce, and this unruly nation will never accept it by governmental decree.
If you don't like the system, guess what you can do!
melismus wrote:
Sad to say, it is not inevitable. The first few gas stations that made the switch suffered huge drop in business and had to switch back. So it will not happen in commerce, and this unruly nation will never accept it by governmental decree.
I've seen several explanations for why we don't switch completely to metric. They all come down to money. It would be too expensive for the government and too expensive for business. In the meantime, those of us who buy tools have to buy double set of wrenches and sockets. Speaking of the cost of conversion, sticking with the current dual system also costs money - and probably lives. A passenger plane crashed because of an error filling the fuel tanks - liters vs gallons.
chrissybabe wrote:
You have every country using metric EXCEPT the one that has been to the moon. And I bet the calculations that got it to the moon were in metric ! The last bastion of a non-metric system is you ! The average, older American citizen who has lost the plot (unable to change).
It's the government and business that do not want to make the switch. Do you really think that the "older American citizen" runs the country?
Citizens are just going along for the ride. Decisions are made by others.
NASA used imperial measurements to put men on the moon. They didn't switch till about 1990. Although switching would cost millions, not switching is also costly.
"The dual strategy led to the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter robotic probe in 1999; a contractor provided thruster firing data in English units while NASA was calculating in metric."
llamb
Loc: Northeast Ohio
I think and work in either/both. I prefer imperial. It was used by the winner of WWII.
DAN Phillips wrote:
If you don't like the system, guess what you can do!
Storm the Capitol building?
chrissybabe wrote:
You have every country using metric EXCEPT the one that has been to the moon. And I bet the calculations that got it to the moon were in metric ! The last bastion of a non-metric system is you ! The average, older American citizen who has lost the plot (unable to change).
I first went to the US 44 years ago. The US govt was talking about moving to metric then. Finally most American stuff is now metric. Your currency is metric ! Why did you stop there ? Even the distance indicators to Mexico are now in metric for some considerable distance from the border on the US side. Stop being so stubborn and change ! Although it is too late now. The USA will always be known as the last to accept the inevitable change to metric.
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Three countries don’t use metric system: Liberia, Myanmar and USA
All the old farts who are stuck in the Imperial system will be gone soon so now is the time to switch. Us UHHers have been dealing in metric in our photography for years so why complain about using it for everything else. I think some ancient large format lenses produced in “olde England” or in the U.S. probably had focal lengths measured in inches, but that was it.
Stan
llamb
Loc: Northeast Ohio
Give 'em 2.54 cm and they'll take 1.61 km
~Lee
And if B/S was pennies we'd all be billionaires!
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