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When you visit Control Panel => Region => Additional Settings => Numbers, you have the option to set "Measurement System:" to either "U.S." or "Metric" . Which of these SI (I am assuming metric means SI, if another standard is meant documentation on this would be appreciated) is this referring to?
I know this sets the "IsMetric" flag in .NET programs, documented here,
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.regioninfo.aspx
What I don't know is where in Windows itself this flag is actually used, and how.
Jessica Pennell
Posted 2017-11-09T22:35:29.957
Reputation: 101
1You That would be on the region you indicate you are in. IsMetric doesn’t set anything, it gets the value of that setting, a different property would have to set it which doesn’t exist. The IsMetric property is a read only property. – Ramhound – 2017-11-09T22:59:01.963
1I have no idea what MKSA or CGM stands for – Ramhound – 2017-11-09T23:05:54.763
That should have been CGS. They're Meters, Kilograms, Seconds, Amperes, as opposed to Centimeters, Grams, Seconds.
In any event I would like to give you credit for your answer, if this is just a flag and powers of 10 are an application developer's responsibility this answers my question. – Jessica Pennell – 2018-12-14T23:21:57.040