----- Original Message ----- From: "millitesla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2001-02-14 12:58 Subject: Re: Well, damn it, NASA ought to be metr [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America] > NASA is 100 % metric on all new projects. They use FFU on support for legacy projects only. But, when the support for those projects dies out, so does FFU. > > A big problem is their vendors who try to sneak in FFU and cause million dollar errors and their media arm who feels they have to accommodate the tax payers and speak FFU to them. > > What in fact they are doing is deceiving the public. Making the public believe American industry still uses FFU, when many of them don't anymore. Industry should be honest and speak out in favour of metric. They need to come out of the closet. Being deceptive hurts everyone in the long term. > > As for the date standard, ISO-8601 is a new standard, and one the whole world can adopt at the same time. It is simple and concise. There is no reason everyone can't follow its logic. > > Changing the numeric month to letters is wrong. Leave the standard as it is. Also, there is only one hyphen between the digits, not two. > > Today is 2001-02-14. Any problems understanding this? > > --------------------------------------------- > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BY EMAIL! > --------------------------------------------- > You have chosen to receive messages from "Metric America" by email. > > Reply to this message: > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/bbsfrp?action=r&tid=metricamerica &sid=12177109&mid=944 > > Unsubscribe from the Club mailing list: > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/config/change_mb_list > > Return to "Metric America": > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica > ---------------------------------------------- > > Not a member? Remove yourself from this list: > http://edit.clubs.yahoo.com/config/unsubscribe_mb_list?.userID=millitesla&.g roupID=metricamerica&.groupType=&.code=kqkKEmys7C > >
