dr-baker wrote:Jocke1 wrote:Aww man, you should have waited until 10:49, instead of 15:23. Who knows what would have happened? Your car might have transformed into a Lola or something.
Also, I find it confusing that your panel shows a mixture between the U.S. systems and the European systems. I thought along with the miles, your panel would show fahrenheit and 3:23pm, not celsius and 15:23.
So two out of three are European and one U.S. (miles).
In speech, I always revert to the 12-hour system. I just had it on 24-hour for when I did community care work, which worked on a 24-hour clock system. If there were an analogue clock system, I'ld have used that... And temperature is one where I consistently use Celcius. Unless it's a hot summer's day, in which case, the temperature will be 90 to 100 degrees...
And for everything else in my life, I use imperial. Weight (in stones, not just pounds like the US), height, measurements, baking, etc. Oh and milk and bar drinks are always in pints, of the 568 ml variety!
In my case it tends to depend on the circumstances - for most daily applications I'd probably use metric for measurements, for example, but for journeys I'd use imperial because the distances are given in miles rather than km. Mind you, the engineering sector is a little odd as, in some areas, some bits of kit are still obviously imperial in origin (e.g. what was in the past a four inch sample is now a 102mm sample).