French Republican time and dates

Posted Jul 13, 2022 21:02 UTC (Wed) by excors (subscriber, #95769)
In reply to: French Republican time and dates by rgmoore
Parent article: Native Python support for units?

> It's kind of fun that units are often named after scientists who did important work that's related to the thing they're measuring- Watt for power, Ampere for current, Kelvin for temperature, etc.- but plenty of people can use the units just fine without knowing that, say, Henri Becquerel is credited with discovering radioactivity. That's why we can mix units named for people with ones named for other things- meters, moles, and seconds- without too much problem, though it helps to understand why some are capitalized and others not.

I think your examples are wrong (although I might be misinterpreting your intent) - none of the unit names should be capitalised when written in full, so it should be watt, ampere, kelvin, becquerel, etc. (Except for "degrees Celsius" which should keep its C). It's the abbreviations that use capitals iff they're named after a person (W, A, K, Bq, etc) (except for litres which can be L or l for typographic reasons). (See e.g. https://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si-brochure/SI-Broc... section 5.2, 5.3)

French Republican time and dates

Posted Jul 14, 2022 18:15 UTC (Thu) by kpfleming (subscriber, #23250) [Link] (1 responses)

And because litre can be either 'l' or 'L', a group of us had quite a laugh at a restaurant whose after-dinner menu included '75ML' portions of popular aperitifs and fortified wines.

French Republican time and dates

Posted Jul 16, 2022 9:33 UTC (Sat) by edeloget (subscriber, #88392) [Link]

> And because litre can be either 'l' or 'L', a group of us had quite a laugh at a restaurant whose after-dinner menu included '75ML' portions of popular aperitifs and fortified wines.

"... and to finish your night with a rapid drink, here is a small pool of 4 megaliters of vodka..."