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Re:Time to Dump Time Zones by knz on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:23AM (#12892235)
And yet nearly every other major developed country has managed to make the switch...

The issue of cost is not unique to America.

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Re:Time to Dump Time Zones by serge2k on Monday November 07, 2016 @06:42PM (#12896333)
The issue of some weirdos making it about freedom is probably pretty unique to america.
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Re:Time to Dump Time Zones by kleigenfreude on Monday November 07, 2016 @07:48PM (#12896677)
That's new to me. I work for a company that doesn't work in metric, and the reasons we haven't switched are:

1. The customers use inches.

2. The expensive machines we use are configured in inches.

3. The code we use uses inches.

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Re:Time to Dump Time Zones by astrodust on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:02PM (#12897266)
1. Tradition.

2. Tradition.

3. Tradition.

The same could be said for a fractional stock market back before decimalization.

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