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From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
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Subject: Re: OT: Converting miles/km
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 Ar an fichiú lá de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Sam Plusnet: 

 > [...] Also, most modern cars can be persuaded to display speed (digitally)
 > in either mph or kph to suit your current needs.

My then wife was using our car for her own reasons at one point in 2019 or so,
and living on the border I rented a Citroën in Northern Ireland since that was
the closest business that would do that for me. It was a UK model, and its
digital speedometer was in miles per hour with nothing in the manual to suggest
how to change that. So for four or five days I was doing the mental arithmetic
in the opposite direction from my norm. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of
things, but an annoyance.

-- 
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)