Re: Units for wind speed

[Yogeesh MB <yogeeshappa mathighatta wipro com>]

Christian Meyer wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 16:15, Christian Rose wrote:
> > The http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50595 bug talks about units
> > for wind speed.
> >
> > Appearantly, even though many countries use metric units for this, the
> > choice of units vary. For example, I'm fairly sure most weather reports in
> > France display wind speeds measured in km/h (kilometres per hour), but in
> > Sweden all weather reports display wind speeds measured in m/s (metres
> > per second). To make sure that gweather picks the appropriate unit for
> > each locale, we need to gather this information for locales.
> >
> > So if you can add information to the list below, please do so. Add
> > "CONFIRMED" if you have found some seemingly official document that states
> > which unit should be used in wind speed reports. Otherwise, just watch
> > some weather reports and watch the wind speed units used. :)
> >
> >
> > locale  unit  status
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > sv_SE   m/s   CONFIRMED (http://www.smhi.se/, http://www.tt.se/sprak/ordval.asp)
> > sv_FI   m/s   ?
> > fr_FR   km/h  ?
> de_DE   m/s     ?
>

Can anybody please confirm the rest of the data? It wiil be easy for me to fix
Bug#50595.

-Yogeesh.

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