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

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