From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:33:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:33:25 -0400 Received: from paperboy.noris.net ([62.128.1.27]:11447 "EHLO mail2.noris.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:33:15 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:32:53 +0200 To: Chris Boot , Linux Kernel From: Matthias Urlichs Subject: Re: temperature standard - global config option? Cc: "David N. Welton" , Pavel Machek Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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