Re: [gpsd-dev] &mu s

[Håkan Johansson]

> -| μs | microsecond | One millionth of a second
>   ^^^^
>
> Also check the gpsd-dev archive for previous discussion on the usage
> of 's'.  In metric land (everywhere by Libya, Myanmar and the USA) the
> 's' stands for the unit Siemens.  This has caused confusion.  We agreed
> to placate the heathen that use metric to use the internal abbreviation
> for seconds: Sec.

In metric land, a capital 'S' is Siemens (electrical conductance), 
and a miniscule 's' is seconds.  So if a lower-case 's' is good for 
non-metric too, that looks cleaner to me than 'sec' or 'Sec' or anything 
else.

That does however not deal with the nastier greek micro prefix letter.

Cheers,
Håkan