Interesting, but I'm mostly interested in the app developer offer a user friendly toggle to allow consumer choice of units.
On Sun, May 31, 2020, 10:42 AM Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> wrote: > One way to attack this problem is to assume that the original readings > were taken in degrees Celsius and converted to Fahrenheit. If one checks > all the Fahrenheit readings in a table, one might find that all the > readings in the range 28-36°F are even numbers, 37-45°F are odd numbers, > 46-54°F are even numbers and so on. The middle number of each sequence of > five numbers, namely 32°F, 41°F, 50°F etc is an exact conversion of the > equivalent Celsius temperature. An inquiry to the editor of the local TV > station, asking why certain values of temperature (such as 31°F, 33°F, > 85°F, 87°F) never appeared in the table might force him to admit that they > had converted from degrees Celsius. > > > > *From:* USMA [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *bill > roush > *Sent:* 30 May 2020 23:54 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [USMA 1438] Celsius on local news/weather apps > > > > Dear friends, > > One action I took recently was to download local TV weather apps and see > if I could set to celsius. I gave each app a review based on whether or not > it was easy to switch to celsius. > > > > KCTV 5 in KC used to have an app that could be set to celsius. It was > replaced with a new app that can't be. > > > > Let's campaign to have app makers incorporate metric, at least as an > option. >
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