Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:32:53 +0200 | From | Matthias Urlichs <> | Subject | Re: temperature standard - global config option? |
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At 18:06 +0200 2001-06-06, Chris Boot wrote: >I'm sorry, by I don't feel like adding 273 to every number I get just to >find the temperature of something.
That's much easier than subtracting 32 and multiplying by 5/9. ;-)
> What I would do is give configuration >options to choose the default (Celsius/centigrade, Kelvin, or [shudder] >Fahrenheit)
The kernel output should not be configurable. You have tools for printing the information; they can do the calculation for you.
Personally I'd like to see cK (centi-Kelvin). -- Matthias Urlichs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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