Geez, you people make it sound like WeeWX defaults to US Customary out of some sort of sheer stubbornness on my part.
First, I'm an earth scientist. I can tell you the depth and temperature of the ocean's thermocline in metric, but wouldn't have a clue what it is in US. Except for daily experiences, it's the only unit system I'm familiar with. Second, take a look through the code base, and you won't find any bias towards US. Everything is parameterized and unit-agnostic. If you were to fork the code, I don't know what you'd change. Third, you have total freedom to change, or even to adopt a mix of US and Metric. Stop your whining (or, to be completely English-agnostic, that's whinging for you Brits and Aussies). Finally, like it or not, most of the instruments out there emit at least a mix of US Customary through their APIs, including the most popular one, Vantage, which is exclusively US. For those users, US would be the "native" system, and results in the best fidelity between source and database. If you don't agree with that, fine: change. And, don't blame me for the shape of US documents. -tk On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 3:04 AM <pono...@gmail.com> wrote: > metric units *only*, that is. > > I am well aware that it's possible to use metric units. I didn't change > the default as I knew I'd upload data to a couple of US sites and, well, > we've all read about screw-ups resulting from mismatched units so I just > went with it initially, thinking I could change it later. I'm still using > the sqlite db. At some point I'll switch and that may be a moment to deal > with it. But, yes, 100%, having relatable data matters. US units mean > nothing to me, despite having lived in the US for a few years--as a grad > student a long time ago. I've lived on four continents and traveled a lot > (nearly 100 countries), mostly for work. As I've never visited Liberia or > Myanmar the only place I've ever encountered non internationally standard > units is the US. > > OK, using a fork is perhaps over-reacting and it's reasonable for US > software to default to US units, but having had to deal far too often with > printing US documents on ISO standard paper (among other things), I have a > well developed antipathy to "America first" in all its forms. It would just > be great to see the US join the rest of the world, even symbolically. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
