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Non-Americans would argue that Celsius is superior in every way. What you grew up with will always seem better and more intuitive. My parents grew up with Fahr

Non-Americans would argue that Celsius is superior in every way. What you grew up with will always seem better and more intuitive. My parents grew up with Fahrenheit. It feels more "natural" and "better" to them. I grew up with both. Both work fine for me. The next generation after me grew up with Celsius, which feels more "natural" and "better" to them. What actually matters in the end is a common standard. And since America is the outlier, they are the ones who must conform.

hilbert42 5y ago
"What actually matters in the end is a common standard. And since America is the outlier, they are the ones who must conform." As someone who grew up under the Imperial/Fahrenheit system and had to live with both the Imperial System as well both Metric systems—the Gaussian/CGS and MKS (SI) Systems at school and operate/convert between them on a daily basis, I can attest that a lot of bunkum is talked by those Fahrenheit-ers who devise every conceivable device and contrivance to avoid biting the Metric bullet. It's rather pathetic really (it's a bit like climate science denial). Every student at my school who did science would overwhelmingly attest that the Metric System is better and much easier in every way. I cover this in considerable detail in the other HN story on Fahrenheit/Celsius titled Celsius Needs a Redesign here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28526183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28526183 As I say there, the Metric System isn't perfect but it beats the antiquated US and Imperial systems hands down. [BTW, you'll find a link there to the Wiki Imperial site, therein you'll find an image of a 'one US gallon gas can purchased near the US-Canada border showing equivalences in imperial gallons and litres'. This typifies how confusing and problematic the US's stubbornness is. Eventually, it'll have to convert to Metric or it'll be out-competed by other countries.]

hilbert42 5y ago

"What actually matters in the end is a common standard. And since America is the outlier, they are the ones who must conform." As someone who grew up under the Imperial/Fahrenheit system and had to live with both the Imperial System as well both Metric systems—the Gaussian/CGS and MKS (SI) Systems at school and operate/convert between them on a daily basis, I can attest that a lot of bunkum is talked by those Fahrenheit-ers who devise every conceivable device and contrivance to avoid biting the Metric bullet. It's rather pathetic really (it's a bit like climate science denial). Every student at my school who did science would overwhelmingly attest that the Metric System is better and much easier in every way. I cover this in considerable detail in the other HN story on Fahrenheit/Celsius titled Celsius Needs a Redesign here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28526183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28526183 As I say there, the Metric System isn't perfect but it beats the antiquated US and Imperial systems hands down. [BTW, you'll find a link there to the Wiki Imperial site, therein you'll find an image of a 'one US gallon gas can purchased near the US-Canada border showing equivalences in imperial gallons and litres'. This typifies how confusing and problematic the US's stubbornness is. Eventually, it'll have to convert to Metric or it'll be out-competed by other countries.]