At 01:00 PM 1/24/2002 -0500, Duncan Bath wrote: >If we want to delay [indefinitely?] the acceptance of SI by the public, we >could do little better than emphasize the scientific/engineering viewpoint. >*People* want to schedule thier driving by knowing how far they can go in >an hour or a day not a second.....
I totally agree with Duncan's point here: m/s is not nearly as useful in everyday life as km/h. This also correlates to the thread regarding dates: the format 2002-07-04 may be "technically" better, but people are not computers, and "2002 July 4" is better for human beings. Jim Elwell
