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Still baffles me people use miles over percentage when measuring capacity.
Percentage is way more useful in most scenarios.
As for the clock I had that recently and yes a long press on the time resets it to the correct value.
Percentage is way more useful in most scenarios.
As for the clock I had that recently and yes a long press on the time resets it to the correct value.
rgc1990
5IL3NT
You must have been upgraded to a high-class Eastern Australian upgrade. Miles are like another language to me and whichever states of Australia are currently in ‘daylight savings time’, which means the clock goes an hour forward.
I always thought that the UK was metric for everything and not imperial?
I always thought that the UK was metric for everything and not imperial?
We use both, apparently randomly.
We talk about pints of milk, but it's sold in litres. We drink beer in pints. We measure fuel economy in miles per gallon but petrol is sold in litres. We measure long distances in miles and short distances in centimetres. Half the population knows their height in feet and the other half in metres, and neither knows the other measurement.
Bantam
Member
I'm with you on this, whenever the GOM subject comes up, I often wonder how people coped in an ICE car when all they had was a fuel gauge indicating Full, 1/2, and Empty.
rgc1990
5IL3NT
Thank you for this response, Tony! This is wild and enlightening haha.
Is it safe to assume that there is no real understanding of any measurement and these are all just buzz words?
Also, the measurement of beer is unimportant as long as it’s plentiful! (I was going to add cold but I don’t believe that’s a requirement on your side of the bay)
Somehow we understand all these different measurements mostly through using them all our lives... I have no real conceptual idea of a km because I've always used miles.. mph is fine. Tell me your speed in kph and I can't relate that to anything I know so I'm guessing. Equally cm and mm are very familiar to me and when I hear people talking in inches it's like a foreign language (all those fractions!).
I don't know why we measure fuel economy in miles per gallon as I literally have no idea what a gallon is. I dimly remember buying petrol in gallons when I was young, but even then you never get to actually see how big a gallon is. If I ever need to know what a gallon is, I have to look it up - and then I promptly forget it again.Is it safe to assume that there is no real understanding of any measurement and these are all just buzz words?
Generally stuff that was sold in big cans (e.g. motor oil, large windscreen wash container) was by the gallon. When we went metric this became the 5 litre can or plastic equivalent. For general estimation purposes you can think of a gallon as that quantity. (The real metric quantity is 4.54 litres per imperial gallon ... and just to confuse things further when talking internationally we have to remember that the US gallon is smaller at 3.78 litres)
Yours but not ours. Do you have the latest version of app 4.4.0-810? That version still shows in Kms
It would be nicer if the 'kWh added in the last charging session' agreed with what Tesla debited from my account.
MrBadger
Badger out
I couldn't get use to the schooner. It just felt that the lager was weak and I had to drink more to feel the effect. Then the bar staff would refuse to serve me...
Did you set the region as US? if your iphone region setting is set as UK then it will change to Kms
Milk is still sold in pints ... litres too, but mostly pints. (The fact that we barely notice shows how much difference it makes!) There was a huge kerfuffle when metric was coming in and we were in the EC and would potentially not be able to buy a pint of milk or a pint of beer ... it was the Brexit thing before Brexit was even invented ... so there was some kind of deal that allowed certain items to be sold in their old imperial quantities... and that's continued to this day. I'm not sure if there was anything other than milk and beer as the exceptions.
It does, but then your iphone lives in a US world, Farenheit, US$ pricing, etc. Not recommended.
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