Is there a reason that distances are now shown in kilometres
Jerome Razoir said, 1628966238
Becky Kvittems said
To be fair I don’t want anyone near my house.
Danny is allowed in my house though cause my mum thinks he’s lovely (but she is very mad)
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Richard Winn said, 1628970164
indemnity said
CalmNudes said
indemnity said
Do you have UK Imperial gallon or USA gallon?
Someone told me very early that a gallon of water (8 pints) weighs 10 pounds (note Pounds are weight, and KG is mass) a UK pint is 20 Fl Oz. But a US pint is 16 OZ (1 lb), so a US quarts and gallons are smaller. Oil is priced in Barrels which are 50 US gallons.
indemnity said
If you think that is confusing.....pennies make pounds, pounds make stones, stones make walls, and Walls make sausages.Edited by indemnity
ROFL !
Danny Molyneux said
CalmNudes said
Temperatures are in Celsius when cold (freezing is zero) and Farenheit when it's hot (a hot day is over 70) .
This bit annoys me so much. Pick a scale and stick to it!
In the oil industry drill bits - and therefore the width of the hole - follow US convention and are measured in inches. But the depth of the hole is usually measured in metres.And in scuba I might say "We'll swim 30 yards to that buoy, then drop down 20 metres to the seabed"
When I went diving in Canada the roads were in KM and the dive gear came from the US and was in feet and PSI, and I spent my whole time doing mental arithmetic.
Don't even get me started on the US habit of Writing time as Hours , seconds , Minutes.
Check out the length of an Irish mile, 8 Irish furlongs 2240 yards, or take a look at Norway and Sweden when they refer to 10 kilometres as a mile, even though distances are marked/signed in kilometres.
When I lived in Oslo, I could walk for 45 minutes and end up in 70 Norwegian miles of forest.
Kevin Connery said, 1628970963
CalmNudes said
Don't even get me started on the US habit of Writing time as Hours , seconds , Minutes.
There are enough real reasons to dislike the US system of measurement (I can't call it Imperial, as most of the Empire it came from has wisely moved on), but I've never run across hours/seconds/minutes.
Month, Day, Year, however, IS the norm in the USA, which makes just as little sense as hours/seconds/minutes would. I get around the confusion by putting the year first, month second, and day last. It at least keeps the computer sorting happy. (Tip: don't use spelled-out months unless you want the first two months to be April and August.)
LRMason.Photography said
I'm living where imperial is the norm and it's horrid. Genuinely. It sounds quaint until you have to actually live with it. Quite apart from fahrenheit (which I think is only used in Liberia, Myanmar, the USA and, as I've discovered, BoT's) the whole feet and inches thing is a nightmare. I converted part of our property into a separate apartment and the fact that 4"x2" is not really 4"x2" was just the start of the problems. Working in 12ths and 16ths revitalised my schoolboy math, but I frequently had to switch between precise metric and nominal imperial or risk getting things horribly wrong. :( If they switch the pound back to 240 pennies, I'm never coming back!
I grew up with feet/inches/yards/miles and such, and it is a bloody nuisance. None of the base-10 math rules apply when adding/subtracting for feet and inches. Plus most decent toolkits require both metric and "imperial" sizes: drill bits, sockets, Allen keys, etc., as so many things use both--some parts will be metric, and some imperial, even in the same bit of hardware.
The last push to 'go digital' here in the US was back in the 1970's, and there was a mix of vocal opposition (a small but loud group) and a huge group of apathetic folks who just couldn't be bothered. So we've got a ridiculous mish-mash of feet/inches/mm/cm/meters/km/miles and gallons vs liters. And don't get me started on furlongs, bushels, acres, pecks, and the less widely but still in use other measurements.
Even cameras and lenses aren't consistent if larger format cameras/lenses are being discussed. Sure, small format is in mm ("35mm") and medium format up to around '6x7' or '6x9' sizes is in centimeters, and the lenses for both of them are rated in millimeters, but past that size, we're back to inches: 4x5, 8x10, and so-on. (Not to mention that the order seems to be different in the US vs UK--it's almost always 4x5 and 8x10 in the US, but it seems to be 5x4 and 10x8 in the UK--am I wrong?) With lenses also being a mix, with older lenses being listed in inches and newer ones in mm. (I used a 10" lens for portraits on my old 4x5 camera, for example.)
An old joke in the computer field is: "Standards: wouldn't you just love them?" There are so many different standards it's as if there aren't any.
CalmNudes said, 1628978707
indemnity said
Check out the length of an Irish mile, 8 Irish furlongs 2240 yards, or take a look at Norway and Sweden when they refer to 10 kilometres as a mile, even though distances are marked/signed in kilometres.
On the wall behind me is a map made by a Dutch cartographer and the scale says (in Latin) "English miles, of which four makes one German Miles". I've also had to deal with the "American Survey foot". One inch is defined as exactly 25.4mm, and feet, yards, miles etc are derived from that. But because the Americans said the meter was 39.37 inches, which is out by a fraction, which matters when dealing with thousands of miles.
Kevin Connery said
CalmNudes said
Don't even get me started on the US habit of Writing time as Hours , seconds , Minutes.
There are enough real reasons to dislike the US system of measurement (I can't call it Imperial, as most of the Empire it came from has wisely moved on), but I've never run across hours/seconds/minutes.
Month, Day, Year, however, IS the norm in the USA, which makes just as little sense as hours/seconds/minutes would. I get around the confusion by putting the year first, month second, and day last. It at least keeps the computer sorting happy. (Tip: don't use spelled-out months unless you want the first two months to be April and August.)
I like to joke about the American date format by applying that logic to time. For documents I have long learned to write 10 August 2021 so that no reader can be any in any doubt. I think there is an ISO standard which says year month day for exactly those reasons. Months as words assume the reader is working in English. And unless you're an insomniac don't get me onto the subject of "Times without time zones don't tell you a time".
Kevin Connery said, 1628980900
CalmNudes said
I like to joke about the American date format by applying that logic to time. For documents I have long learned to write 10 August 2021 so that no reader can be any in any doubt. I think there is an ISO standard which says year month day for exactly those reasons. Months as words assume the reader is working in English. And unless you're an insomniac don't get me onto the subject of "Times without time zones don't tell you a time".
Drifting ever further off-topic, I have to agree.
I had a remote shoot this morning at 6 am, my time. That was 2 pm for the model, her time. At least they were the same day...
I work at an American company that routinely deals with international events around the clock, and part of the company uses GMT for everything, while another part uses Pacific time. Which not only makes knowing What Time Is It difficult, but after 4 pm Pacific, the dates are different, too.
Boudoir by Alan Broadhurst-Hall said, 1629222317
Mine mysteriously switched to kilometres too, but has now switched back to miles, all by itself... Strange.
Russ Freeman (staff) said, 1629222745
Alan Broadhurst-Hall said
Mine mysteriously switched to kilometres too, but has now switched back to miles, all by itself... Strange.
Earlier today we fixed the bug that was causing it :-)
Danny. said, 1629222770
Alan Broadhurst-Hall said
Mine mysteriously switched to kilometres too, but has now switched back to miles, all by itself... Strange.
Russ said he'd noticed the issue, and it would be fixed on Monday. It was. Not that strange. :-)
Pixel35 Photography said, 1629222971
Mine is now in Kilometres, and i can't search for Models. I can search for everything else, but when I change to look for Models i get the following....
Boudoir by Alan Broadhurst-Hall said, 1629223515
Danny Molyneux said
Alan Broadhurst-Hall said
Mine mysteriously switched to kilometres too, but has now switched back to miles, all by itself... Strange.
Russ said he'd noticed the issue, and it would be fixed on Monday. It was. Not that strange. :-)
Ah, I'm only just started to navigate the forums. Must have missed that!
Boudoir by Alan Broadhurst-Hall said, 1629223558
Russ Freeman said
Alan Broadhurst-Hall said
Mine mysteriously switched to kilometres too, but has now switched back to miles, all by itself... Strange.
Earlier today we fixed the bug that was causing it :-)
Ah, and here I was thinking we were going back into the EU 😂