Re: Units for wind speed

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:47:46PM +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> mån 2002-05-20 klockan 07.20 skrev Yogeesh MB:
> > Can anybody please confirm the rest of the data? It wiil be easy for me to fix
> > Bug#50595.
> 
> Here is the data, as per the responses I got:
> 
> 
> locale  unit  status
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> de_DE   m/s   ?
> el_GR   km/h  ?
> et_EE   m/s   ?
> fr_FR   km/h  CONFIRMED (used by the official French weather office on its website)
> hu_HU   km/h  CONFIRMED (National institute for weather forecast, www.met.hu)
> lt      m/s   ?
> pl_PL   km/h  CONFIRMED (e.g. http://www.imgw.pl/cgi-bin/imgwtod?miasto=krakow)sk_SK   m/s   ?
> sv_FI   m/s   ?
> sv_SE   m/s   CONFIRMED (http://www.smhi.se/, http://www.tt.se/sprak/ordval.asp)
> 
> I don't know if the default (for locales not specified above) for metric
> should be m/s or km/h, though. Perhaps m/s as meters and seconds are
> base units, but I really don't know what makes the best default here.

I think km/h is the best default.
That is, many velocities are measured in km/h eg car speed,
flight speed, bicycle speed, walking speed, hurricane
speed. At least to me it is much easier to relate a wind speed
to km/h while m/s is less obvious to me

best regards
keld