How hard is it to add c or f to the end of a tempreture

How the hell are people supposed to know if you are using celsius or fahrenheit

  • schmidtster@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The weather today is nice at 22, but back home it was -10 last week.

    I’m in Europe and traveling. How do you figure out the second? If I am American it’s not going to be converted, so that would be F, almost every else would be C.

    Context can’t help you in a lot of situations.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah the first one you can get context from the current weather, but the second is the one that lacks any context without additional conversation. You know what provides the context easier? Saying Celsius of Fahrenheit.

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            It is incredibly tough to have conversations with Americans who think local means their units yes.

            They don’t even realize they do it, it’s 22c where they are, so that’s what they refer to, but back home they use their local units there. Both are local, they aren’t changing anything like a deranged lunatic. They just fuck it up since they never denote units ever.

            Simple concept really.

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        Somewhere where it gets to -10F. That’s like the difference between 50F and 80F