On 12/09/2011 11:13 PM, Dan Abel wrote:

> Seriously, I'll be very happy when we adopt a standard date format,
> which will certainly not be what most in the US currently use.
>
> As well as adopt the metric system for every day use.
>
> It won't happen in my lifetime, though.



It would have been nice if the US had carried through with its
commitment to adopt SIM. Personally, I like the metric system. I
learned the Imperial system in school and grew up with it. I had a
metric seminar at work when we went metric more than 30 years aog. I
learned the most valuable lesson... don't convert. Just work in
metric.It sure makes a lot more sense in some things, like temperature.
People are better able to detect a temperature change in Celsius than
Fahrenheit, and there is a marked change at the freezing point, so it
makes sense to set that as zero.