On 4/10/2020 7:34 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:
> 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.Â* If you make a product in the US and want to sell it
>>>>>>>> world wide,
>>>>>>>> metric is good.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Next up:Â* Military time.Â* 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:Â* year-month-dayÂ* 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.
>

You have a point. A lot of what I did was with people in Austria. I'm
pretty sure Austria and Australia are the same place but some people
speak German so you can tell them apart.