On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:35:05 AM Peter Homann did opine:

> Yes, in Australia, down is ON.
> 
Thats because you are already upside down. :-D

Sorry Peter, but you really did leave that one wide open. ;)

> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Peter.
> 
> On 8/03/2011 10:36 PM, andy pugh wrote:
> > On 8 March 2011 10:56, Mark Wendt<mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil>  wrote:
> >>   which is typically how we as humans think about
> >> 
> >> light switches - "UP" is "ON", "DOWN" is "OFF".
> > 
> > Actually, that's a US thing. (or at least a cultural thing). UK (and,
> > I think the rest of the EU) have down-for-on with domestic light
> > switches, and toggle switches in other situations.


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