Re: SI vs. IEC prefixes

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 2 December 2013 10:01, Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 03:34:33AM +0000, Christopher Maynard wrote:
> > For example, if a user wants to set a maximum file size, then I think
> it's
> > more intuitive to the user to specify and expect SI, powers of 10, units
> to
> > apply rather than the IEC, powers of 2, units.  This might end up being a
> > bit strange on some OS's (Windows, for example) to see a 977KB file size
> for
> > file that's actually 1MB in size, but apparently at least one OS, Mac OS
> X
> > version 10.6 will now use MB for all file and disk sizes so that same 1MB
> > file will actually be correctly reported as such.  This to me makes the
> most
> > sense, and so I'm in favor of changing the code to (and prefixes back
> to) SI
> > units.
> >
> > This could also be said of the capture buffer size, which is currently
> > incorrectly reported as MB (when it's really MiB).
> >
> > What do others think before I make any changes to SI units?
>
> Please change to SI in these cases.
Somewhat UK centric, and possibly NSFW in some jurisdictions, but the
official internet units of measure are here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/

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