Re: Signature problems

Mark Brader wrote:

> Oliver Cromm writes:
>> --
>> Oliver C.
>> 45n31, 73w34
>
> The use of "w" suggests that this is meant to be in English.

Or German, no difference here.

> In that case the compass points should [...]

I am aware that the above is non-standard, but I like its conciseness.

>> Temperatur: -7.4°C (Wind chill: -15) (3 January 2006 1:00 PM EST)
>
> It's "temperature" in English,

Oops, it's long ago that this signature was in German ... corrected.

> and "EST" conveys the wrong meaning to Australians, at least.

This part is being copied literally from my source, I'm not sure if I
should change it.

Data are scraped from:
<http://text.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/city_e.html?qc-147&unit=m>
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