Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 4/10/2020 6:57 AM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 03:48:10 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 6:39:57 AM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 03:03:26 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 7:50:17 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 19:36:07 -0400, Ed Pawlowski
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/9/2020 7:04 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mostly, inches and feet are used by the construction
>>>>>>>> industry. They seem quite happy with the system and it
>>>>>>>> serves them well.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Construction will probably be last to change but some
>>>>>>> plywood is already
>>>>>>> metric.* If you make a product in the US and want to sell it
>>>>>>> world wide,
>>>>>>> metric is good.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Next up:* Military time.* Avoide the confusion of AM/PM
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And after that, date format. Americans use Month/Day.
>>>>>> Europe/Australia
>>>>>> etc use Day/Month (or day-month etc). Can be tricky.
>>>>>
>>>>> I favor ISO format:* year-month-day* Today is 2020-04-10
>>>>
>>>> It's confusing. Is that the 4th of October or the 10th of April?
>>>
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601>
>>
>> So? What I mean is that whatever format or ISO code you use, when
>> you're communicating internationally, there's a risk of
>> misunderstanding.
>>
>
> I did enough international to understand incoming stuff but when
> sending, to be sure, I tended to spell the month to avoid potential
> confusion.

You failed ED. You will never satisfy Gruce.

Nothing you do will come near the dutch or australian stringent
standards.

Face it, man, they are the superior race.