On Thursday, March 28, 2013 21:05:01 Stanislav Jakuba wrote: > No, I never did. I mean, I do not want to irritate or confuse those kind of > people. They have their orders. But I do use that Y-M-D everywhere unless > there is a specific order outlined. I used the Y-M-D even in my passport > renewal application and ended up born in Connecticut (instead of > Czechoslovakia). But the date was rewritten okay. You see my point about > confusing them?.
How did they get Connecticut out of Czechoslovakia? I went to the DMV today and asked them to correct my height (which has changed a bit in the past ten or twenty years). I measured it a few days ago as 1.515 m. The examiner didn't know what I was saying and I told her that, if they can't accept a height in meters, they're at least 35 years out of date. I'm going to write to the DMV. I know some points to make: *The metric system is preferred, by Federal law. *All cars today are built in metric. *7.3% of the population of North Carolina, and 12.8% of that of Mecklenburg County, are foreign born; most of those grew up metric. What are some others? I know Paul Trusten has written about using only metric units to express a patient's mass. What about a patient's height? The Spanish version of the driver's handbook has distances, but not speeds or vehicle weights, with metric equivalents. Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.
