Greg wrote in USMA 9101: >I thought that the trend in Canada to use time to measure distances was an >artefact of having two different measurement systems. Switzerland is a country where measuring distance by time is very common. Distance there measured on a map are not very maningful because they don't take account of the up and downs on the way. The Swiss unit of distance is "eine Stunde", the distance a man can walk in an hour, so the distance between two points is quoted in Stunden.
