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It picked my location perfectly, but then gave me a temperature in Fahrenheit. All you need now is to match locations to measurement standards (ie. US, UK and t
by joshsharp 18y ago
It picked my location perfectly, but then gave me a temperature in Fahrenheit. All you need now is to match locations to measurement standards (ie. US, UK and that one other country imperial, all others metric).
- Oompa 18y agoWould be nice to switch between C and F. I'm in Atlanta, but I prefer to see temperature as degrees Celsius.
- pwoods 18y agoIt's always nice to meet progressive Oompa Loompas
- FiReaNG3L 18y agoThat, and I think its going to snow here, not rain :P
- there 18y agogoingtoprecipitate.com seemed like too long a name :)
- jodrellblank 18y agopredicipate.com With unicode domain names, you could have preticipation?.com, although it may look a mess in non-Firefox browsers.
- axod 18y ago☂?.com
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- eyudkowsky 18y agoOh, that was subtle.
- bluishgreen 18y agoI grew up in a metric place, in bay area now - But I can never get an instinctive feel for temperature unless its told to me in metric.
- holygoat 18y agoJust goes to show that it's not easy to match location to measurement standard: you would be wrong if you picked Imperial measurements for the UK, unless the person viewing the page is of a certain mindset and born before about 1975. I was raised in the UK, and used celsius. Now I live in the US and have learned to use Fahrenheit. On a related note, I was very annoyed that Yahoo Weather will allow you to either choose centigrade and kilometers per hour, or Fahrenheit and MPH, but not to mix and match. Insane.
- axod 18y agoIMHO The UK is slightly more complex than that. When it's hot, we use Fahrenheit - "It's almost 100℉ out there!. When it's cold we use Celsius - "Brrr! -7℃" Probably best to show both.
- DougBTX 18y agoLiving in the UK, can't say I've ever seen that. Celsius all the way!
- swombat 18y agoMore importantly, the UK is far simpler than all the others. The answer to "is it going to rain?" here is always "Who knows? Probably... can't really say. It looks sunny outside, but it was raining this morning so it might rain again later today."
- pwoods 18y agoHow fast is your temperature in the UK?
- tallanvor 18y agoBut some of us want to see the temperature in Fahrenheit no matter where we are, such as expats or travelers.
- there 18y agoi changed it to default (on your first visit, before you have a cookie) to celsius for anything outside of the us. when you click on the answer you can toggle between celsius and fahrenheit and override whatever it picked.
- laut 18y agoOr even more simple. US (you could add Belize): fahrenheit. Every other country: celsius. AFAIK the UK uses celsius mostly.