User talk:Bobblewik/units of time

Multiple units of time
I have taken the liberty of changing "m" to "min" in Eben Moglen. I have also switched whitespacing to "12 h 34 min" (from "12h 34min") in some cases. It looks a bit odd to me, but at least it's consistent. Rl 11:54, 12 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Very good. As you probably know, there should be a space before unit symbols. I think this comes from ISO 31 and is mentioned in the Manual of Style. The abbreviations 'h' and 'min' are shown in Wikipedia and on the SI website: http://www.bipm.fr/en/si/si_brochure/chapter4/table6.html


 * I think time durations often look odd because more than one unit is quoted (part hours and part minutes). This is not how we normally like metric units. Thus '1 h 25 min' looks like '1 kg 24 g'. If time durations used single units like '85 min' they would be less odd and look more like '1024 g'. Although it is common for non-metric units e.g. '1 pt 3 oz'. It is the same issue when people quote '1 m 65 cm' (two units, as some people use) instead of '1.65 m' (single unit, my preference). I tolerate the written form being different to the spoken form. After all, abbreviations do precisely that anyway. As you say, what you did increased consistency and that is a good thing.


 * Thanks for your edits and your feedback. Bobblewik (talk) 17:48, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

units of inverse time
Regarding your edit to Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, 'fps' is the accepted abbreviation for 'frames per second' (particularly in CG), not 'frames/s'. (If you really wanted to go SI, Hz would have been right &mdash; and it's the norm when referring to television). A quick scan of your contribs list doesn't turn up anything else where you might have changed this... but that's a mightily impressive list you've got. Keep up the good work! -- Perey 19:44, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * I have done some previous changes from fps to frame/s, but not recently. Only a few anyway. If you want to track them down, search for 'frame/s'. The SI form Hz would certainly work for me, but I was being conservative with my change. I know that 'fps' is accepted by some, but I do not regard that as reason to believe that 'frame/s' is unacceptable. I tried to do a web search to see if the term 'frame/s' is in use, but I failed. I won't promise to close my options but, in consideration of your response, I will certainly be less inclined to modify 'fps' to 'frame/s'. Thanks for the feedback. Bobblewik (talk) 20:06, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)