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  From: David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 12:11:54 +1030 (CST)

Re: Daylight Savings Time

Hi,

> What surprises me is that the US is so advanced in so many
> technological areas, and yet they still have
> miles, ounces, fahrenheit and so forth, and highly
> individualistic time zones.

The story I heard was that they tried to go to SI but couldn't understand
them !!! It does lead to interesting situations tho. In a previouse life I
studied Civil Engineering. You deal alot with forces, measured in Newtons,
but US deals with Pounds of force. Since the forces are tipically large,
thousands of pounds of force is a small ammount, so US has a measure for
this, KiloPounds of force (KIPS !). Makes conversion units interesting.

cya

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