bts forcemerge 492960 669362 thanks On ven., 2012-04-20 at 23:26 +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > On 2012-04-20 22:26, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On jeu., 2012-04-19 at 18:03 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > > As I am not working in the field of wind energy I can say that I can > > > actually imagine how fast e.g. 19 km/h is, but not so 5.28 m/s. > > YMMV, but I can imagine what a meter is (two thirds of my desks > width) and what a second is (count slowly to three), so a "m/s" > is more natural to me than km/h. It is hard for me to "feel" a > kilometer (666 times my desks width?) or an hour (count slowly > to 10800?). But this is surely different between people. > > > > Thus km/h should at least kept as option for non-experts. > > I wont mind, of course, nor would I mind Beaufort or knots :~) > > Btw. "hour" is not an SI unit, and in science "m/s" and "km/s" > are typically used, "km/h" nor anything based on hours, are not. > It's OK to support any kind of units some people are used to or > like, but the scientific variant should be the default. > > The bug is archived but you might have looked at #492960 -- Yves-Alexis
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