Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Aidan Kehoe Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: OT: Converting miles/km Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:31:25 +0100 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <87v7ypecw2.fsf@parhasard.net> References: <8a49d912-d0bf-3ca1-6f10-2639a7e8eddc@email.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net F2Bu/S2Uh8OyAftGu/IXZgxXuT9zG48zJZJPF/dHI8OEXduiK2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ew/ErSymQJ3wvaaldmBrQf3wE/c= sha1:FTZY8cRHqOyzDswi2dBd59x4dJc= sha256:7VY8QJfo6IHKtCE65ATxA7BFwnO009TCKUiw/uMxWEA= User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) XEmacs/21.5-b35 (Linux-aarch64) Bytes: 1780 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)