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:''"By law, residential owners must provide sufficient heat between October 1...''" By whose law? I'm asuming that is some United States law due to the use of Fahrenheit. But where in the US? Is it a national law, state level, or something else? Is it a statute, a common law, a regulation? It sounds practical and I agree it is a fair statement, but you need to cite that. [http://law.enotes.com/everyday-law-encyclopedia/landlord-tenant-rights This link] states a law for Connecticut (and a few others) that is similar in purpose, but different in numbers. --[[User:Trakon|Trakon]] 08:28, 9 November 2006 (UTC) |
:''"By law, residential owners must provide sufficient heat between October 1...''" By whose law? I'm asuming that is some United States law due to the use of Fahrenheit. But where in the US? Is it a national law, state level, or something else? Is it a statute, a common law, a regulation? It sounds practical and I agree it is a fair statement, but you need to cite that. [http://law.enotes.com/everyday-law-encyclopedia/landlord-tenant-rights This link] states a law for Connecticut (and a few others) that is similar in purpose, but different in numbers. --[[User:Trakon|Trakon]] 08:28, 9 November 2006 (UTC) |
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A minor quibble, but surely Kelvin - the SI unit of temperature - should be mentioned before the Rankine or "absolute Fahrenheit" scale which is virtually unheard-of outside the USA |
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Revision as of 21:44, 10 November 2006
Problems
This page needs work. The body of this article seems to be taken from a hypothetical "Room Temperature vis-a-vis Scientific Experiments" page. Surely there are other relevant factoids about room temperature unrelated to the concerns of scientists conducting experiments in rooms; maybe it can be explained why room temperature is so comfortable for humans, or if there is a minimum or maximum comfortable or safe room temperature.
Whose standard?
Where do you get the standard room temperature is 22 °C? I more often see 20 °C called standard room temperature, and have seen other values as well--but I don't recall ever having seen 22 °C called by that name. Gene Nygaard 02:37, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Human comfort
At 20°C hands are too cold to type comfortably. @ 22°C you can sit in a T-shirt all day. However, from a scientific point of view 1) 20°C=68°F exactly, thus, convenient. Another reason, "By law, residential owners must provide sufficient heat between October 1 and May 31. During this period, between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., if the outside temperature is below 55 degrees Fahrenheit, owners must heat apartments to at least 68 degrees Fahrenheit." :) Cheriyan
- I'm perfecly comfortable naked in my room at 26-27°C, but I need body full clothing when it's 20°C or less in my basement room near the cold ground at this time of year. I think a section on human comfort would be appropriate in this article, so I've halved Cheriyan's above question and put it together with mine. 72.136.196.113 06:03, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- "By law, residential owners must provide sufficient heat between October 1..." By whose law? I'm asuming that is some United States law due to the use of Fahrenheit. But where in the US? Is it a national law, state level, or something else? Is it a statute, a common law, a regulation? It sounds practical and I agree it is a fair statement, but you need to cite that. This link states a law for Connecticut (and a few others) that is similar in purpose, but different in numbers. --Trakon 08:28, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
who is Rankine?
A minor quibble, but surely Kelvin - the SI unit of temperature - should be mentioned before the Rankine or "absolute Fahrenheit" scale which is virtually unheard-of outside the USA