On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:31:48 PM UTC+1, Ricky Clarkson wrote: > > Dick has possibly not exactly gone native, but recalled his younger years. > >
It was Chet though who said "...down to 30 degrees outside...", nobody said "30 below". That's a pretty large energy margin right there. > While nowadays in the UK the weather forecasts are in Celsius only, in the > 1980s and early 1990s they were in Fahrenheit or both, and the older > generation continue to think in Fahrenheit. > > Yeah I realize some countries are slow to adopt the SI units. In Canada it's a weird mix, you buy gas by the liter but coke by ½ gallon; measure air temperature in Celsius but water temperature in Fahrenheit etc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/Jz9rJVh4fS4J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
