HP OmniGo - Change conversion from US gallons to UK Gallons? HOW

Glen_Wilson@akamail.com
Fri, 13 Dec 1996 21:27:14 GMT

Hi Everyone
I had a job today that involved converting the gallons scale on an old
fuel tank into litres, so I grabbed my Omnigo and input the data into
the Volume conversions function and the answer didn't look right, so I
used 1 gallon instead and got 3.79 litres which is the answer for US
gallons, NOT UK gallons which should be 4.55 Litres.=20
I can't find any mention on this in the help files or Setup or any
where else. Is there any way to change this to UK gallons?
I don't need this sort of info very often but it's a bit of a shock to
find a bug / error / feature the first time you try that doesn't seem
to allow changing the default setting. They let us change time zones
and 12 / 24 hours clock and other things, why not this?
As a side note how is it that America ended up with a gallon smaller
than the UK in the first place?? Anyone know?
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