Thread:Bassmech20608/@comment-24499545-20140702202131/@comment-25021853-20140703060346

Thanks for the reminder. I used to deal with international standards all the time in my job before becoming disabled. Unfortunately, here in the U.S. we still stubbornly use the old English Imperial measurement system, as opposed to the Metric system which every other advanced nation uses (scientists and doctors here use the Metric system and have done so for decades now, and we used it in my highly technical job, but I often had to convert data to Imperial for our American clients). There was an attempt to convert to Metric back in the 1970's, but too many ignorant parents refused to change, ironically seeing the old English Imperial system as "American" (which we might as well call it). We kind of got stuck mid conversion though as we have 2 Liter bottles of pop, but still buy milk and gasoline (a.k.a. Petrol) in Gallons. Most everything sold in the U.S. is dual labeled in both Metric and Imperial. Our other stubborn habit is to list the date as Month, Day, Year, which I hate, I much prefer either Day, Month, Year (as most of the world does it) or Year, Month, Day (as some programmers prefer as it generates an overall number that increments over time, back in the days of computer files being limited to 8 characters plus extension I and my coworkers would use an incrementing 6 digit date code of yymmdd).

I completely understand why we don't use commas in articles on this Wiki and won't use them from now on. I had fallen back on old habits in a few edits till Shnoop pointed out to me that we don't do that, the rest was just me providing background and discussion (sorry, polymath on the Autism spectrum here, I do tend to ramble and go off on considerable tangents if I don't reel myself in, especially as 80% of my free time online is spent reading up on simply everything under the sun,  great part about being a polymath is I'm never bored, the downside is that I know quite a bit about almost everything and tend to change obsessions every month or so once I'm satiated on my current topic of interest, which is back into Astronomy for now...)...