OT Fahrenheit

[T]

Yes it can be measured using both, but traditional usage in the scientific community has always been metric.

[T]

Or 67!

[T]

For some reason, it was elected to keep the operations center (computer=20 room) at my office at 65F. It is very cool in there.=20

[T]

From 5:30AM to 8:30AM mine goes to 67F, then 62F until 4:30PM back to=20

67F until 11:45PM and then to 62F.=20

[GWB]

Hell, my wife's got the a/c on 70 and I'm wearing a sweater.

[GWB]

Define "simplified."

[krw]

Certainly it is. It my not be MKS, nor purely SI, but it is metric. K==kilometers (1E3 meters) H==Hours(3.6E3 seconds), both of which are SI units. KPH is then a "derived unit" and perfectly acceptable.

Who cares?

[Mark Lloyd]

Something reminds me of a quotation from the TV show "Perfect Strangers", that is "don't be ridiculous".

Of course I never said I recommended using metric time units.

[Doug Miller]

Half right. It *is* a distance. It is *not* a metric measure.

That doesn't make a light-year a metric measure any more than the fact that light travels approximately 5.88x10^12 miles in a year makes a light-year an imperial measure.

[gfretwell]

I am not sure why people think computer rooms should be that cold. The official IBM spec for a data center was 75F at 50%RH.

[Stephen B.]

"Doug Miller" wrote

I would say a light-year is an astronomical unit, and not a metric or imperial unit. Just like a dollar is not a Franc or a yen.

[Harry K]

And mine will complain it is too warm at 68 in the summer and too cold at 68 in the winter. Go figure.

Harry K

[T]

In our case the costs of power, heating and cooling are fixed for the next ten years in the square footage cost.

We do run half lighting most times though, to save energy. :)

[Alan Moorman]

The temperature on your thermostat doesn't really matter.

What matters is the temperature where you sit, compute, sleep, etc.

In my house, the thermostat is in a warm spot, and most of the places I actually spend time are 2 - 3 degrees cooler than the setting.

So, if you want to deal with the actual temperature, check the temperature where you actually do things, and set the thermostat up or down to make your specific areas be the temperature you want.

You may want them at 68, or at 73, I don't care, but use a thermometer, and set the thermostat to give the temp you want were you spend time.

Alan

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It's not that I think stupidity should be punishable by death. I just think we should take the warning labels off of everything and let the problem take care of itself.

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[T]

Luckily it has been far warmer than usual here in the northeast. Daytime temps have been low 50's to high 60's. Night temps are getting down there but with day temps so high, the heat hardly runs and the place states near 70F.

[Mark Lloyd]

I've been in some places, like computer rooms, which were kept like that. Also the generator room at Glen Canyon Dam was kept at 50F. Interestingly, I didn't find it that cold. That house (where 65F was too cold) may have had too many leaks.

[Mark Lloyd]

The lower temperature may to deal with all the mobile heat sources (people) that enter the area.

[Mark Lloyd]

I feel best when the A/C thermostat is set to 76F (when using cooling, with heating I usually like it around 70F).

My mother wore sweaters to work, even when it was over 100 degrees outside. I wear one about 10 days every year (I'm at about the same latitude).

[Mark Lloyd]

The "second" is a metric unit. The "year" is not.

You can measure the distance light travels in a year, expressed in metric units. That doesn't make "light years" a metric unit. It is based on the year, which is not a metric unit.

You can measure the volume (using fluid ounces) of a liter. That doesn't make the liter non-metric.

[Mark Lloyd]

For the willingly confused, there is another unit of distance called an "astronomical unit".

Some people would argue that the above is wrong, and would seem to believe that saying "a dollar is not a peso" is proof of that :-)

BTW, apples aren't oranges, but both are fruit.