Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Metric vs. US/Imperial (Was: The Leap Second is Dead. How Will GNU/Linux Cope?) Date: 19 Oct 2026 02:42:48 GMT Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <18df0d1075e60834$2732$2693458$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <6ad3783b$0$7098$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <18df56f2b859344d$1690$25751$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <11b2c82$vg3b$1@news.xmission.com> <20261018145916@news.eternal-september.org> <11b37e5$1dsuc$10@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Z5ptfJIKXT6fLIu0ag27Rw6tszMoS6O+8MoOgGcRE8pLDyAum/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:b3U6aj4+wHSq/QuTnaMJ3qF6ewM= sha256:wxzpu92XY2RO6fsu8HRoyr0bMYnj1kVKh0OdyO/wLLQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:94274 On Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:41:57 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 18/10/2026 20:05, Roger Blake wrote: >> On 2026-10-18, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>> Here, the imperial system is not even mentioned in school. All is SI. >>> As in most countries. >> >> How are vehicles wheel/tire diameters in your country measured? >> All the imported cars I see here in the U.S. have wheels and tire size >> measured in inches. >> > Of course. rims are inches, tyre tread widths are mm. They're slowly going to metric but bike tires, particularly tube type knobbies, still are sometimes in inches. https://fortnine.ca/en/converting-motorcycle-tire-sizing-systems I'm pretty sure my current set of Kendas are stamped in inches.