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Comment by bryanlarsen

1 year ago

That practice is pretty widespread in Canada. Ever since metrification nobody is really sure whether the person they're talking to is more comfortable with miles or kilometres. So they just use time.

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jdougan  1 year ago

When I was very young in Canada, before the metric changeover, it was still common to measure distance with time.

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