Celsius to Fahrenheit

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Can anyone advise me how i can change from Celsius to Fahrenheit?

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Welcome

Simple algebraic equation: F = (C*9/5) + 32

Seriously, I am not aware of a setting to change the units.

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Yeah, i also don’t know of a setting to change celsius to freedom units…

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Well in that case it’d be

Celsius = FU * 10

?

:slight_smile: :rofl:

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It may be worth submitting a Feature Request to add units of temperature as an option between F and C. It could be as simple as a drop down menu in the Localisation Settings im guessing.

But really, for me, SI units work.

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I guess, though at this point we don’t even know what OP’s asking about (there are at least two places–drives and CPU–where temps are reported in °C). But since thresholds for both are generally described and published in °C (even in .us), I really have to wonder why anyone would want this. Unless OP’s question doesn’t have anything to do with TrueNAS at all.

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Yeah, pretty much all documentation and guidance regarding server / component temperatures is in C. It’s like asking for a gallon of coca-cola, just use the customary unit. :slight_smile:

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SI units? That would actually be kelvins! :grinning: I’m all for it.

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Yeah, that was kinda my point. :slight_smile:

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Learn to use Celsius

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At least °C is an SI derived unit (as opposed to SI base unit).
I don’t know what °F is.

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Pity… At least, read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (coming soon to US libraries).

And for extra fun, look into °R (Réaumur).

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Played it Fahrenheit 451 (video game) - Wikipedia

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@Joseph_Perry

Well you can see how this thread rolled along. I too use Celsius but only because as others have said, everything it rated in C and very rarely in F. So keeping the same units of measure as the manufacturers makes a lot of sense.

Now that I have a 3D printer, I use metric and it has forced me into relating measurements into cm vice inches. When I was in high school (in the 13 colonies) I was told Metric was coming, learn it now. I never learned it and never had to use it until possibly the last 6 years, mainly on screws and bolts.

You could make a Feature Request however, being realistic, I doubt it would ever be approved. If it were really important to you, your could alter the TrueNAS code and recompile it. I’m actually being serious. It isn’t terribly difficult if you know something about Python, and if not, it will likely take you some time to learn something useful and possibly valuable to yourself later on. After a new version comes out, once you have the specific code to adjust, you can make the same or similar tweaks and recompile much faster. We use to do this in the FreeNAS 8 and 9 days. I recompiled several times a week with many of my own tweaks.

If you come up with something and you build it to work within the GUI, submit it to iXsystems so they can evaluate it and possibly include it.

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Did you never go to college in a science or engineering field, or work in a workplace that dealt with those things? I went to college for engineering decades ago (in the US), and they spent about 5 minutes on “US customary” units before telling us this stuff was basically no longer used outside of a few very particular fields (civil engineering was one big holdout I think), and then moving straight to SI units for everything.

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Yeah, I being US never ever use Celsius. But I am sitting in Darwin, and of course everything like the thermostat is Celsius (and no setting for F). I’ve always known the formula of course but as I travel more and more, getting used to it without having to convert. I guess I don’t mind.

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The US has officially been Metric since the 1970s.[1] But inertia being what it is, I doubt we’re ever[2] going to change from our customary units of measure for common or popular use.

I mean, you can design for those in inches, but everyone’s expecting metric. And make sure to have plenty of 3mm hardware.

But I’m afraid I don’t get the point of the request. I use °F to describe temperatures I sense. I use it when brewing beer, or in the kitchen, or whatever. But I don’t have to know what 40°C feels like to know it’s getting uncomfortably warm for a hard drive.

I’m surely not the only one here whose degree(s) and work have nothing to do with any technical field (other than having done tech support at Earthlink for about a year).

  1. Metric Conversion Act of 1975, PL 94-168. ↩︎

  2. OK, forever is a very long time. I’ll settle for “in my lifetime.” ↩︎

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While in the military and civilian workforce (also military program related) we always used the old US system, never Metric, not until as I said, the past 6’ish years. Even our technical drawings are all still in factional units, like +/- .001 is still related to an inch, not metric. A lot of our drawings are from the 1950/60/70/80’s however even the new stuff is a mixed bag and you have to read sheet 1 of the drawings to know what the unit of measure is. I am preferring the Metric system myself.

I have to agree, I cannot relate what 23C or 35C feel like but 74F or 95F I can relate to, and of course you need to factor in RH, where I live that makes all the different between enjoying 70F (80% RH or less) or 85F (30% RH or less) in the sun. Or units of weight, a kg to a pound. I am learning grams thanks to my 3D printer. And I now know that my ink pen weighs 10 grams. I would have never guess it would have been .3 oz.

With all that said, I still prefer to leave the computer hardware in the metric system. I can relate to the specifications, and the manufacturers are using that unit of measure. I care if I’m within tolerance or not, I don’t need to know what it feels like.