by Anura Guruge
on January 13, 2021
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Two days ago we had a very cold snap up here in New Hampshire.
A distant neighbor, an ex-professional ‘jock’, who had purchased a ‘Range Rover’ a few months back, posted a picture from his Range Rover APP saying the temp was -17.
I questioned that. I had been checking the temp. all day because I wanted to go out and get at least 10K steps in so as not to break my 600-day PLUS streak. I try NOT to stay out for too long when it is below -5F because I have been told that this could harm my ancient (& much abused) lungs. I did go out & get my 10K steps in. Temp. never really got to 5F — more like 3F. But, I kept my time outside to 30 minutes or less.
So, I was very confused as to where he was getting his -17 from.
Then when I was doing my post, I converted 0F to Centigrade. BINGO. BINGO.
-17C = 0F.
I immediately realized what had happened.
I went and looked at the picture he had posted. BINGO. No ‘C’ or ‘F’. Just ‘-17’.
He had NOT set his temp. units correctly.
He can’t help it. He will be the first to admit, that he is an out and out jock.
I doubled over laughing. Oh, dear. Oh, dear.
As you can see from the above, the U.S., really, is the only country of significance that still uses ‘F’ for temperature. So, you can understand why the likes of Range Rover do NOT bother with the ‘F’ or ‘C’ designation THOUGH the APP (of course) supports both units. Just doesn’t tell you which one you are using.
To be fair most people would work it out quickly that they have the wrong setting.
You can always rely on an American jock to show you how crazy folks can be. SMILE.