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Time to double down on the metric system (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it's time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.

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[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Oh man, you just reminded me of the incoming Epochalypse... A tangent to what you're talking about but something that I feel isn't being taken seriously enough.

I suppose we still have just over 13.5 years, but we have so much more computerized stuff now than we did in the 90s, and how many things do we own with clocks that can't be updated? Interesting times ahead.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

Indeed. 64-bit Linux always used 64-bit times, but 32-bit was only updated to it in 2020, and who knows what baremetal embedded systems are doing. A lot of stuff is going to reach EOL by 2038 anyway, but I'm sure there will be people freaking out because their shitty old oven won't turn on, or even their furnace! Anything that's actually professionally maintained will be easier.