In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes: >> As Seconds are a fundamental unit of the SI system, shouldn't the "S" be >> upper case? > >SI units named after famous dead guys are capitalized (cf Farad (F), >Hertz (Hz), etc). SI units that are something else aren't (cf meter >(m), liter (l) and gram (g)).
The rule is actually a little bit more fundamental: Units retain their capitalization when abbreviated. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
