Metric versus standard settings

[Bill--Need Help]

My settings somehow got changed on my computer and when I play Microsoft
golf, all my measurements are now shown in metrics instead of standard feet
and inches and my clock display is in a 24 hr mode (otherwise known as
military time). Can anyone help me correct these 2 problems?

 

[Monitor]

My settings somehow got changed on my computer and when I play Microsoft
golf, all my measurements are now shown in metrics instead of standard feet
and inches and my clock display is in a 24 hr mode (otherwise known as
military time). Can anyone help me correct these 2 problems?

You can adjust your settings in the Control Panel / Regional Settings. By
the way - what you call "standard settings" (feet, inches) is nowadays used
only in a small number of developing countries such as the USA. The vast
majority of countries uses the metric system. Not quite switching over to
the metric system can be a costly exercise - see the end of para 4 in this
New Scientist article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8835

 

[Anthony Buckland]

You can adjust your settings in the Control Panel / Regional Settings. By
the way - what you call "standard settings" (feet, inches) is nowadays
used
only in a small number of developing countries such as the USA. The vast
majority of countries uses the metric system. Not quite switching over to
the metric system can be a costly exercise - see the end of para 4 in this
New Scientist article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8835

One of my favorite trivia in this regard is that the US inch has
been defined in terms of the centimetre _since_the_nineteenth_century_.

In this other developing nation, Canada, we've been officially metric
for more than a generation. Nevertheless, there are plenty of people
who still use the old Imperial (same as US, except for oddities like a
different-sized gallon) measures. Tolerant and enlightened people
like, ahem, me, take a "bilingual" attitude and carry a double-edged
measuring tape.