On Jan 15, 12:24*am, Jack Frost wrote:
On Jan 14, 10:01*pm, Phil Layton wrote:

It looks like the aviation standard will become hectopascals before the
year is out...

Much easier to say :-(

Phil

And so it should! Everything should be in SI units. It peeves me off
when I'm reading research papers and constantly have to convert
between hPa, mb, atm, torr... Argh!

You'll never get me talking hectopascals and Celsius. It's
millibars and Centigrade and poo to the tidy little minds who insist
otherwise.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.