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You jest, but given America’s preference for traditional units of measure, I’m amazed they adopted a decimal currency to begin with. Pretty sure they’d still b
by dave4420 3y ago
You jest, but given America’s preference for traditional units of measure, I’m amazed they adopted a decimal currency to begin with.
Pretty sure they’d still be on the Julian calendar if Britain hadn’t switched over before American independence, too. Think about the bullet we dodged there, programmers who hate time zones.
- midasuni 3y agoThe dominance of America at least means time zones are well supported. Had a country like U.K, China or India - all country with a single time zone - dominated the early computing development time zones could very much be an afterthought.
- quickthrower2 3y agoHad computers proceeded trains through you would be OK since UK had a time zone per town. Train timetables encouraged the single timezone.