metric units *only*, that is. I am well aware that it's possible to use metric units. I didn't change the default as I knew I'd upload data to a couple of US sites and, well, we've all read about screw-ups resulting from mismatched units so I just went with it initially, thinking I could change it later. I'm still using the sqlite db. At some point I'll switch and that may be a moment to deal with it. But, yes, 100%, having relatable data matters. US units mean nothing to me, despite having lived in the US for a few years--as a grad student a long time ago. I've lived on four continents and traveled a lot (nearly 100 countries), mostly for work. As I've never visited Liberia or Myanmar the only place I've ever encountered non internationally standard units is the US.
OK, using a fork is perhaps over-reacting and it's reasonable for US software to default to US units, but having had to deal far too often with printing US documents on ISO standard paper (among other things), I have a well developed antipathy to "America first" in all its forms. It would just be great to see the US join the rest of the world, even symbolically. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
