Comment on Makes more sense than the Imperial system
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Not only make more sense, it avoid errors. Imperial system don’t even make difference between mass and weight. Some confusion in the imperial system has already cost NASA several space probes. Imperial units are non linear and aleatoric values without any sense, using the measures of bodyparts of an King in the past, obsolete in science, mathematic and architecture. Used in Airlines and nautics, almost by tradition
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Oh, the date thing. I hate it because it conflicts with rest of the world too 05/06/2024 causes lot of confusion since we can’t even know which system we are using. Thanks it only happens online not locally in my country
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Even more annoying, because there’s a bunch of software with bad localisation where we sane DD/MM/YYYY and YYYY.MM.DD users are forced to see the abomination that is MM/DD/YYY and it leads to errors.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yes, online it¡s better to write the month name to avoid confusion, because of 4 removed countries worldwide wich still use the imperial syste,