Canada hasn't entirely switched to metric. It's apparently part of the public/private distinction in the culture. Canadians are comfortable talking about the weather in °C, and thermostats in public buildings display in °C, but virtually all private homes (I'm told) have thermostats that display in °F, even if there is no one living there who is old enough to remember the pre-metric days. My house has a digital thermostat that cannot be set for °C. I just bought a new digital kitchen oven whose settings are in °F and cannot be set for °C (even though the incremental cost of a few more lines of code for the control program would have been trivial).
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Date: 2007-11-10 11:34 pm (UTC)