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    SubjectRe: temperature standard - global config option?

    On 06.06 Alan Cox wrote:
    > > notice that in some places, Fahrenheit is used, and in some places,
    > > Celsius. It would seem logical to me to have a global config option,
    > > so that you *know* that you talk devices either in F or C.
    >
    > The spec is farenheit

    Kernel is worldwide, should not use anlo-saxon shifted units. Use the
    International System of Units (SI)
    http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html

    Temperature measures in kelvins.

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