Re: [Talk-GB] [Fwd: Re: Speed limits]

2007-09-21 Thread Michael Collinson
At 11:13 AM 9/21/2007, Dave Stubbs wrote: I'm definitely against this idea! For the record, I have no great urge to go metric ourselves; I just want things to work, and perceive a point of failure in this. I realise that programmers can easily add a comversion routine - but why cause the

Re: [Talk-GB] [Fwd: Re: Speed limits]

2007-09-21 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Dave Stubbs wrote Leaving the units off is quite a bit like not bothering with the first 2 digits of the year for whatever reason. It's more like not stating that the year is in the Gregorian calendar every time you write one. Yes, if someone comes along and uses a Julian year things are

Re: [Talk-GB] [Fwd: Re: Speed limits]

2007-09-21 Thread Dave Stubbs
On 21/09/2007, Jonathan Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote Leaving the units off is quite a bit like not bothering with the first 2 digits of the year for whatever reason. It's more like not stating that the year is in the Gregorian calendar every time you write one. Yes, if

Re: [Talk-GB] [Fwd: Re: Speed limits]

2007-09-21 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reading this thread, the thing that occurs to me is that every other tag in the system is based on British English, just because that's what we started with, and it would be horrible to have a mixture. Argubly, in British English (and even US English)