Post #1394449

2024-08-25 19:29 UTC

@blake @mhoye Daylight saving isn’t a big issue for me as I grew up in Sweden and that is so far north that the concept of daylight saving is fairly good. My proposal to remove it is to move 30 min from each hour and meet in the middle. But the distance debacle is for me absurd. As with temperature (Fahrenheit). Why not just do as so many other countries? 😀😀🤦‍♂️

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@blake@infosec.town 2024-08-25 21:18

@stadsplanering @mhoye for fahrenheit/celsius specifically, I'm of the opinion that fahrenheit is better for the sole use of "what's the weather outside," because it does roughly (roughly!) correspond to body temperature: 0 degrees is 0% hot, 100 degrees is 100% hot. Celsius very much does not. In all other cases, Celsius is better, but in this specific, everyday use of temperature, Fahrenheit is the way to go. Because in Celsius, 21 and 22 is a big difference, and you kinda have to already know that 30° is "hot," whereas the number 100 carries that meaning intuitively. The rest of metric doesn't have this, though, and it is one case out of many (the other everyday use of temperature is cooking/baking, where Celsius makes more sense.) Canada does this kind of thing a lot, actually: they'll use US customary ("Imperial") units in some situations and Metric/SI in others. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. (Even though, like the US, everything is defined in terms of Metric.)

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