David, Thanks for that explanation! I think we should include your answer in a future Metric Today.
Don -----Original Message----- From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of cont...@metricpioneer.com Sent: Sunday, 07 July 2013 08:01 To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: metricsystem10 Subject: [USMA:53026] KM/J Page 6 of our May - June issue of Metric Today bottom left corner has a Malaysia postage stamp with article that focuses on an unusual gauge labeled km/J. The article writer proposes a possible explanation. It is really much more simple than the proposed guess. The j simply stands for jam, the Malaysian word for hour, according to http://translate.google.com/#en/ms/hour (Under the National Language Act 1967, "The script of the national language shall be the Rumi [Latin] script: provided that this shall not prohibit the use of the Malay script, more commonly known as the Jawi script, of the national language.") David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
