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.

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