Bug#451485: units: acres calculated with US survey foot not normal foot

2010-06-05 Thread Hamish
[getting back to this] This is not a bug. It is normal behavior. No, it's a bug. Basing the conversion coefficient on the user's locale is awful enough, but also US Survey Foot is no longer used by most states in the US since some decades ago. Maybe 11 of 50 still have it on the books in their

Bug#451485: units: acres calculated with US survey foot not normal foot

2010-06-05 Thread John Hasler
Please take this up with upstream (to whom the bug has been long since forwarded). I'll go along with whatever Adrian decides. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#451485: units: acres calculated with US survey foot not normal foot

2007-12-16 Thread John Hasler
Try this: toncho /~ units You have: USmile^2 You want: acre * 640 / 0.0015625 -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#451485: units: acres calculated with US survey foot not normal foot

2007-11-16 Thread Hamish
Package: units Version: 1.85-3 Severity: normal Hi, I noticed something weird, acres are treating feet and survey feet backwards as far as I can tell. According to my copy of Glover's Pocket Ref 2nd ed. it should be 640 acres in a sq mile exactly. $ echo $LANG C $ units '1 acre' 'mile^2'