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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by JAlexoid on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:44PM (#36233276)
To this day, living in US for 8 years, I have to stop and think if I need to translate minutes and seconds to American.
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by a1369209993 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @06:07PM (#36234297)
There's a handy rule of thumb for this: is the number of seconds per minute (60 aka 2*2*3*5) a weird, random-sounding number that's way too easy to make clean subdivisions out of[0], rather than a nice, math-hostile power of ten? Then it's probably already in American units, unless it's British.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number

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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by juped on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @06:43PM (#36234690)
Robespierre wanted to saddle us with metric time too, you know.
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by ted_bunny on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:30PM (#36235135)
The 60 is from Sumer.
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by a1369209993 on Thursday June 08, 2023 @01:08AM (#36237482)
It's in the context of:

> I have to stop and think if I need to translate [] to American.

and I assume (reasonably though not certainly) that the commentor is not Sumerian.

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