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Many countries favour using Kilojoules instead of calouries for enrgy input and output. Please add the option to choose in all relevent dashboard areas.
As Grandpa Simpson once said, "the metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets fifteen rams to the hogs head and that’s the way i like it!”
But seriously,the world is never going back to the Imperial System once people are weaned off it. NASA literally lost a Mars Probe in space in the late 1990s because one of the engineering teams programmed some measurements in the old Imperial system when the rest of the agency uses metric.
Received a Fitbit for Christmas. I was a little disappointed that only calories were offered. All our packaged food in Australia is in kilojoules. Which means a conversion all the time. I don't have a brain for calories.
I notice that this issue has been raised for over two years. Surely it is time for an update from a Moderator as to when this change is going to occur. After all, most countries in the world use kilojoules.
"Hello, America, the 1960's called they want their imperial measurements back!" the rest of the world abandoned feet, inches, and calories back in the 1970's so it's time you did some simple programming and added kJ to those in your European, Australian and New Zealand markets who need them, surely not too big an ask? Thank you.
Having kJ as a unit of measurement I thought was a must to have these for sale in Australia. I have just received one for Christmas and couldn't find the option to change it. This thread is very difficult to find and I only found it because of a link from another thread.
Please, please, please add kilojoules to your device, it is a simple calculation, like distance, and weight.. most uptodate operators use the metric system and it is strange not to have the kilojoule option as part of your system We dont use calories in NZ, just like we don't use feet or pounds..
I would have thought that when you began selling/distributing your product outside of the US this woud have been a no brainer. Thank goodness MYFitnessPal doesn't share your short sightedness and also can convert kilojoules back to calories when it integrates with your dashboard. Does seem ironic that we need to use a third party app to get info into the correct format.
Please count my vote for this feature. I thought this option should be a no-brainer. I have checked the mobile app settings, and my online profile settings; with no luck. Like previous posters, I am in Australia, and use MyFitnessPal.
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