On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:36:04 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>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.

Whoosh.