Hmm... May be I misunderstood something

In this particular case I think 'the pen is mightier than the sword'.. just have a paragraph in your style guide requiring the scale and unit be included in the variable name, or at least documented at the variable's declaration site.

I personally work on one project where units of time are stored in things like "lengthMs", "startDelayMs", etc. Seems to work well for me.