so some days you spend more time viewing the scenery, huh? ;-)
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: Hi :) > I think our cars show both too. I think road signs only show miles. > Errr, i am a cyclist so any distance away just seems forever away until i > reach it. 60 miles might take just a few hours one day but then an 8mile > might be unfeasible another. Bit of an exaggeration of course. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > From: James Knott <[email protected]> > To: LibreOffice <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 19:08 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to > other software/formats? > > > Ruth Ann wrote: > > Metric just never caught on here in the USA. And I noticed that as the > > signs were replaced, the news ones just gave the distance in miles again. > > > > You can thank Reagan for that one. Peanut Carter had implemented a plan > to convert, but Reagan killed it. This was the same period as when > Canada switched. > > Oh, and our cars still do show the speed in both miles per hour and > > kilometers per hour - but I think that is probably just in case we > > happen to visit Canada (who has gone metric, I think) :-) > > Both Canada and Mexico along with every other country an American can > drive to, uses Km. The U.S. is stuck with 2 third world countries as > the last holdouts. How does it feel to have the U.S. on par with > Liberia and Myanmar (Burma). > > Regardless, thanks to world trade, more and more U.S. companies are > having to work with the metric system, if they want to sell elsewhere. > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
