Clearly the original text suffers from a copy-paste mistake (wouldn't be
the first time a standard suffers from dumb errors like this). The
'knot' is *not* a unit of distance; it is only in informal usage (See
for instance http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictK.html) that the
nautical mile is made a synonym to 'knot' (really a knot-hour): no
normative document will ever make such a mistake purposefully.

At the very least, a note-to-translators should be added explaining this
problem and recommending that the translation work from 'nautical mile'
instead of 'knot', particularly since the informal confusion of speed
and distance units is not going to be present in most target languages
(the French, for instance, never use 'nœud' to mean a distance).

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Title:
  Text of libexif Template “libexif-12” is incorrect

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