If you have junk mail or virus filtering in place it will have been placed
in a location other than the inbox but should be a folder visible to you in
your e-mail program. They are not usually removed completely without your
consent or, in the case of anti-virus, some warning of it.
Regards
Phil H
We often discuss the best way of writing metric quantities but we seldom
consider context. It's difficult lay down any rigid rules because it will
depend on circumstances.
For example if a 500 ml quantity is part of a table of information with
values ranging from sub-litre to multiple litre then i
I'm not a football fan but I watched some of the World cup and listened to
some of the commentary by Gary Linacre et al (I hope I've spelt it right).
They all spoke in yards. However there was one incident where they were
dissecting some event and it was brought up on the screen with overlays of
d
About time too.
Hopefully manufacturers are beginning to see that by breaking away from
descriptions in inches they emphasize the advancement in product technology.
A lot of people regard metric as something for the future but dont envisage
using it in their own lifetimes (not withstanding the fa
Ezra wrote:
... All temperatures in degrees Celsius (but they never mentioned the units,
just the numerical value, which I interpret as an even higher comfort level
with Celsius).
I notice that too on British TV. When a presenter just says degrees it
usually means they won't bother with Fahrenhei
Steve H wrote:
>I don't believe that 2010 will have any impact on this because you are not
buying "numbers of btu/hr", ie they can't sell "by the btu/hr".
This is quite true, but it is understandable that so many people think
otherwise.
This whole sorry business of supplementary indications and
>In the UK radiators are sold that way too.
>In my local B&Q I was looking for a new towel warmer/radiator combination
>and it stated watts and BTH/hr.
>On a massive hoarding above the 'zone' it explained how to work out the
>BTU/hr needed and claimed that it was a "standard unit".
The watt is a
The kilolitre is just as acceptable as millilitre or centilitre, which are
both in common use.
Phil Hall
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of G Stanley Doore
Sent: 03 June 2006 11:16
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:3689
Another classic example of the poor understanding of the
difference between power and energy.
A BBC news programme today featured an item about a family
experimenting with a new life-style to reduce carbon emissions. The presenter
showed a new gadget that monitors electrical consumption
Dear all
There plenty of examples where obsolete units of measurement still form well
known (metaphoric) phrases in ordinary language; e.g. "a grain of
intelligence". How many people know, I wonder, that the "grain" is (or was)
in fact a very small unit of mass (~65 mg).
The best we can do is int
Every country needs a single system of
measurement that everyone can understand and use for all purposes.
The international metric system is the
only one that can fulfil that role.
Phil Hall
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nat Hager III
Sen
We get that in Britain too.
Why should we preserve the customs and
practices of our ancestors just for the sake of it?
Out ancestors used units if measurement to
serve a purpose in life just as we do. Why do people assume that they would
have expected their descendants to continue t
Oh sorry madam, let me just label that up
for you.
Now let me see that’s 0.098 inch to a
0.138 inch adapter … there you are.
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nat Hager III
Sent: 30 April 2006 12:45
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:
It's important to free your mind of the idea that the litre is for liquids.
It isn't. It's just a measure of volume, period.
1000 mL = 1 L
1000 L = 1 cubic metre.
SIMPLE!
I don't criticise anyone, or think any the less of them, for falling into
this trap but it's important to recognise the mental b
Of course, it's actually to a scale of 1:40 (near as damn it).
I was working on a scale drawing recently for an IT room reconstruction at
work. It struck me just how easy it is when you convert all the measurements
to mm, i.e. 7.1 m = 7100 mm etc
To work out a convenient scale for printing on A4 I
>It makes a lot sense to use in this context. I realize that many will make
the argument for the cubic meter but I feel that when discussing
containerized quantities, liters make more sense. I can visualize a liter
easier (and more to the point, relate to direct personal experience) than I
can a
This thread presupposes that the cashiers
know that 10% is one tenth.
One thing I learned when trying to teach basic
maths to very weak underachieving kids in the UK is that you can take nothing for
granted. It’s not easy to put yourself in their shoes.
I maintain that metric doesn’
Just out of interest I notice that Pyrex are selling some dishes with
plastic lids without any guidance as to the heat resistance. A couple people
asked about it on their forum and were told they cannot be used in an oven,
even though the rather sketchy FAQ page could be taken to mean otherwise.
P
In the UK we often hear the argument that
imperial is more natural because units like the foot are scaled to body parts.
Well, I have two key references for this
in metric. The distance from my left shoulder to the wrist of my outstretched right
arm is about a metre (handy for measuring
>There is no such thing as a federal highway. All highways (interstate, US
and state) are state highways built and paid for by the individual states.
States receive federal funding for various projects and highway construction
but the highways are all state built, owned and maintained.
>From th
The driving force in the United Kingdom for the decision to change in the
mid sixties was lobbying from industry.
The issue was the cost of dual working, i.e. (mostly) metric for overseas
products but imperial for the domestic market.
American industry should in theory be thinking along the same li
The term "click" is not very helpful.
I recall watching an American War movie some time ago in which that term was
used extensively. The Director did not see fit to dropping any hints in the
dialog as to what it meant and I was left not knowing what they were talking
about.
I can tell you that it
>This is also simply "68 choose 2" from probability theory:
>68! / (68-2)!(2!)
Exactly.
For the benefit of those not familiar with factorials (symbolised with a !)
the above simplifies to 68 x 67 / 2 = 2278
Phil Hall
An alteranative approach is to post a preliminary message offering the
attachment to anyone interested. It can then be sent direct to the personal
mail box of list members on request.
I have to agree with Jason that it's bad practice to send unsolicited mail
with large attachments. If the reci
Sorry - I made a typo. This was (painfully obviously) meant to read:
"It's not exactly new news - but they've changed the road speeds to km/h,
Steve!"
('they' being the (Republic) Irish)
Ok fine - but if we are going to be sarcastic then I would have to say that
with your track record a "t
It's not exactly new news - but they've changed the road speeds to mph,
Steve!
What is this supposed to mean? The only change that has occurred is for the
Republic of Ireland to change to km/h for speed limits.
Phil Hall
Up until last year I worked at Guinness, and they (my Irish collegues)
spoke "mixed".
Clearly the victims of the measurement muddle in UK/Eire. At least the
Republic had the sense to take the next step in breaking out of this
stupidity.
Phil Hall
There are other much more obvious explanations for the rising level of
obesity in Australia, and it's the same as for other developed nations like
the US and UK.
Quite simply its a side effect from us all getting richer and the effect
this has had on our life styles. Rich high energy food is m
From Dr Stanton:
"I think the move to kilojoules was a huge problem in this country because
nobody knows what a kilojoule is - they can't possibly add them up,"
Try asking them what a "calorie" is or what the difference is between
"calorie", "Calorie", "kcal"
I have an exercise bike that dis
Imagine how much simpler life would be for people in the industry if there
was a single system of measurement. Look at the clutter in the container
specs on this site:
http://www.freightraders.co.nz/containerspecs.html
They even have to include conversion tables just overcome the ambivalence o
A few observations:
- We in the UK have had weather forecasts in degrees Celsius for many years
now. I've yet to see or hear temperatures forecast to 0.1 degree precision.
- It is a common misconception that the metre has changed because it is no
longer defined as the distance from Earth pole
Tides in the UK are in meters only.
http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EasyTide/EasyTide/SelectPort.aspx
Mike Payne
And yet they refuse to authorise metres on road sign,s except as optional
supplementary indications for height and width, and not at all for distance.
Phil Hall
One thing though - you suggest one poll showing a 97% favour for imperial.
If this is the case then it certainly shows that the "anti-EU" factor is
very different and removed to teh metric/imperial debate since pro/anti-EU
opinion hovers about the 50%
I'm suggesting that such an unlikely resul
The UK newspaper "The Independent" has published the results of a poll
asking "Should Britain go metric?"
Yes - 62%
No - 38%
http://comment.independent.co.uk/article318961.ece
I don't personally set much store by these single question yes/no on-line or
telephone polls and I am suspicious of t
I'm not in the least surprised at the public reaction to this. Why should
they, when asked completely out of the blue, react favouably, when they know
nothing of the rationale behind it?
Certainly the magnitude of the change is a significant factor but another
one is the irresponsible reaction
Linda, Bill
The concept of the kilosecond and megasecond is an interesting alternative
to conventional time but from a strategic point of view, i.e. promoting and
encouraging greater use of metric in the United States it would be
counter-productive.
Opinion is clearly divided on this list as
Dear Pat
I think you're right, the two numbers don't add up to the overall height.
However I'm sceptical that the height of the sole is only 3 mm So I think
both figures are wrong.
I made measurements of the image on my screen and calculated the height of
the sole as a proportion of the ove
I'm really astonished at the abbreviation they've used for the mass
unit. How they got THREE M's for "Million Metric Tons" (which has
only TWO M's) I'll never understand.
Furthermore, since a million tons is 1000 tons and
a ton (or tonne) is 1000 kg and
a kilogram is 1000 g,
that makes a million
and Metrication matters
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:20:03 -0900
The Alpha Centauri stellar system is described in all of the books and
articles I've read as being 4.3 light years away, not 4.2 light years. --
Jason
- Original Message - From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL
Dear Pat
Thanks for notifyinmg us of your newsletter - very interesting, especially
the piece on energy units. I think your long list makes the point very
effectively as to why it's important to phase out obsolete and unnecssary
units of measurement. Global warming is an important issue and on
Remek
The joule is a unit of energy, the watt is a unit of power. In this context
power is a measure of the amount of energy per second. In fact one watt is
one joule per second.
In the circumstances you have described the watt (or kilowatt) would be more
appropriate because it's the rate at
I had to wait until I got a response from a TSO I know before making the
following claim.
It is ***illegal*** to have glasses marked as "568ml" for beer/ale/cider
in pubs. You cannot even have a dual label (imperial/metric).
I too have made enquiries about this and the advice I have receive
Scott
Your comments below are very interesting raise a genuine issue about the
obstacle to learning that dual measures give rise to.
You may like to consider a slightly broader issue of how things could be
improved if there was better co-ordination between different departments so
that one s
I am inclined to agree with some caution being exercised in respect of
impact on education, but we shouldn't dismiss it or play it down either.
In the absence of research we can't dimension it or be specific as to the
difference it will make. We can however point out that learning metric in
sc
If the numbers are 'stick on' ones maybe they ran out of '3' s ...
... or were just hedging their bets!
Still, that's the beauty of maintaining two (or more) systems. You need
extra symbols (in this case 4 instead of 2 per sign) and the inevitable
mistakes.
How much easier life would be for
John
This is a very encouraging sign. Isn't the clarity and simplicity just
great!
(A very good photo too - well done)
Let's hope we see more of this on other products soon.
Phil Hall
- Original Message -
From: "John Woelflein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Se
The UK and the US are still driving their Ford Model T and are unwilling to
replace it with an up-to-date car because of the cost of the new car, even
though the new car's maintenance and fuel consumption is much lower.
Not to mention comfort, user friendliness and a myriad of other development
Dear all
Thanks for your contributions to this mini debat over the value of pi. I
found them all (and I mean all) interesting and thought provoking. I've
always been fascinated with mathematics and take a lot of pleasure from such
cerebral exercises.
I'd like to offer an incite into why it i
I've no idea how to prove pi is irrational but folks might be interested to
see how root 2 can be shown to be irrational, i.e.
there is are no integers p,q such that (p/q)^2 = 2
The following is a proof by contradiction i.e. we assume something is false
and show it leads to a contradiction.
S
Jon
In one of your documents you say: "Since by definition the value for Pi
is the ratio between the circumference of the circle to its diameter, it
must be representable in the form a/b ..."*
*
This is your fundamental mistake. The *vast* majority of numbers are
simply not expressible as in
en it is useful to have wind speeds in km/h as well - this
makes
the corrections due to wind speed much easier to calculate.
- Original Message -
From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:40
I think it would be better if weather forecasts wordlwide used m/s
I don't see how km/h or mph convey anything over and above an arbitrary
scale. Units like km/h are really for journey times or comparison with
different modes of transport. So why not get used to the proper SI unit?
Phil Hall
Dear Brij
Considering present length of the Metre, Earth can be considered a
'hypothetical sphere' of radius 6371 km, with its
circumference:40030.1592786906 km.
I can't quite work this out. If we take the Earth radius as 6371 km, and
assume a perfect sphere, I get 40030.1735920411 km (round
Humphery, sir:
I'm still trying to work out what a "metre new" is.
Considering present length of the Metre, Earth can be considered a
'hypothetical sphere' of radius 6371 km, with its
circumference:40030.1592786906 km.
Earth circumferece of 360-degree, then works to 111.194886885252
km/deg
Dear Pat
You may like to take a look at this web page:
http://ticketslondon-online.biz/vintage_buses.htm
There is a data sheet available in pdf and doc formats (bottom of the page).
The dimensions are given in both metric and imperial. The figures I have to
say, strongly suggest an imperial o
For someone like myself 0.3992m is a pretty small amount for something
that could never be measured to that sort of scale on a brass bar in
Trafalgar square - and small enough never to have a problem in my life.
In fact its probably about the same distance when talking about how the
accura
"... I would have liked to see something like "The 30 ft (9.144 m)
Routemaster buses have now been replaced by the 18 m Mercedes Benz Citaro
bendy bus". This format ensures that SI is always in the statement and it
also show what the original measurement was if not was not SI."
Good point,
Stephen Humphreys wrote:
Accurate in relation to what?
Accurate in relation to the conversion factor to the metre becoming more
accurate (as technology allows).
When the yard became 0.9144 m, it was effectively made *less* not more
accurate than when it was 0.91443992 m
When this change t
Surely this means then, that British supermarkets selling milk in
multiples of 1 pint in non-returnable containers are breaking the law? A
carton that cannot be re-used, and which the supermarkets do not allow to
be returned, cannot be described as "returnable containers"; thus milk in
cartons
Cardarelli; Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights
and Measures; Springer-Verlag, London 2003.
The British system of units, known as imperial
units, was established by the Weights and Measures Act (WMA, 1824) of
June 17th 1824. Its three base units are the pound avoirdupios,
the yard a
It is interesting to note that not only is a yard defined as 0.9144 m but
the inch is not defined as 1/36 of a yard but as 25.4 mm (exactly).
Therefore, customary measures are all defined by metric ones and not in
relation to each other.
If you do the arithmetic you will find that:
0.0254 * 12
By the definition of using light you can quanify a foot or yard by a
division of that length. In a way the scientific advances that allowed
the modern definition of the metre also made the most accurate yard length
ever, thanks to the very concept of the metre.
Accurate in relation to what?
ved. SInce the yard is defined as 0.9144 m **exactly**, the yard's
precision also changes whenever the metre's precision changes.
----- Original Message -
From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Sent: Wednesday, January 18,
t;U.S. Metric Association"
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:23 PM
Subject: [USMA:35725] Re: decimal time
On 2006 Jan 17 , at 1:33 PM, Philip S Hall wrote:
> Definition of metre:
> The length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time
> interval 1/ 299 792 458 of a se
om: "Bill Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:23 PM
Subject: [USMA:35725] Re: decimal time
On 2006 Jan 17 , at 1:33 PM, Philip S Hall wrote:
Definition of metre:
The length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum
>>Each day the English drive miles defined in
metres and drink pints of beer>>defined in millilitres, while in the
USA, people watch football where the>>main scoring is done over an
exact distance of exactly 9.144 metres.>>It¹s called Ohidden
metric¹.>>> I'm not convinced that a=b makes 'b'
Brij sir...
Considering Earth to be 'hypothetical Sphere of radius 6371 kilometre',
the Earth is 40030.1592786
kilometre, AND each degree works to 111.1948868853 kilometre.
Hypothetical sphere of radius 6371 km, to NEAREST km so circumference of
Earth to nearest 0.1 mm ?
Decimal time will never be a practical proposition so long as the length of
the day and the year are regarded as natural cycles to which all measurement
of civil time must relate. You can't decimalise both the day and the year
together because you're stuck with 365.2422 days in a year.
Future
I'm not a particularly strong advocate one way or the other on this, but if
it were deemed to be sufficienlty important for medical practice to move to
kPa for blood pressure then there are ways to address the issue raised here
by Scot.
The unit mm Hg is of course the actual height of the column
It is not clear if the joule was "first used" before being
officially adopted by the congress, but given that Joule died the
same year, it may have been proposed then as a memorial.
The joule did not die. What happened that made you think it had?
You have to distinguish Joule from joule. One r
The SI conventions, its symbols and definitions are uniform and language
independent. That is the basis on which the international system is founded.
Those involved would feel (I'm sure) that any attempt to go beyond that
would create unnecessary division with little prospect of reaching a
univ
Dear Pat
According to this page it looks as though the joule was adopted into SI in
1960. It apparently had previously been adopted by the IEC in 1889, the year
of Joule's death (maybe named in honour because of that).
http://www.sizes.com/units/joule.htm
Regards
Phil Hall
- Original M
The journalist misrepresents the legal situation. It is not an "EU law"
that
applies, it is Irish law such as:
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZSI329Y1991.html
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZSI639Y2002.html
Anyone interested in metrication and/or laws in European countries should
know what an
Oops!
Metrication Matters gets a plug too.
Sorry, it's a reference to another site called MetricMatters. I was fooled
by the similar looking red font.
I don't see a link to USMA though.
Wrong again - there are two links although a bit obscure.
Enjoy!
Yeah still a great site though.
The are and hectare fill an awkward gap between the square metre and the
square kilometre. The ratio of the two is 1:10^6 so there is really room
for a unit between them. If the intermediate unit was 10^3 m^2, it would
represent an awkward area - a square with sides of length 10*10^2 m
(approx
Stan,
You ask (in your document) if anyone knows of a way to display numbers in
Excel according to a chosen number of significant digits rather than decimal
places.
It is possible to do it using worksheet functions rather than cell
formatting. This involves a combination of the ROUND, INT an
Dear Pat
Mrs Naughtin put's it very well when she says the BBC are "on the horns of
cleft stick".
I notice that even within the article Dr Whitehouse can't make up his mind
which should be the primary unit for the measurement data:
... 9km (29,000ft) ... 45-52,000ft (13.7-15.9km). ...
Phil
Dear Pat and others
You should
rejoice that predominately Australians use the metric system foralmost all
that they do every day. You could also wonder at a society thattolerates
the dumbing down of reality to pander to a small minority ofnay-sayers by
a group in the media, many o
Dear Amy
It's the term *offcially* metric that is the key here. I'm English and live
in the UK. My country is officially metric. However you might not think so
if you lived here too. Our road signs are still imperial and there are no
formal plans to change them (although there is a long term o
Jason
Do you have spam blocking installed? That might account for it if the
messages were dumped on receipt.
Phil Hall
- Original Message -
From: "James J. Wentworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:40 AM
Subject: [USMA:35210]
Martin, Han
Modern history has shown that when Britian and France leave political
rivalry to one side they actually get on quite well with one another,
vis-à-vis the Concorde and the Channel tunnel projects, both involving
leading edge technology and innovation.
Maybe the metric system is an
Escape from Coldtitz?
Phil Hall
- Original Message -
From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:53 PM
Subject: [USMA:35193] Humorous item
You will note that the thermostat the woman is holding is in Celsius!
http://new
I think this discussion and the examples given all point to one inevitable
conclusion.
If businesses stuck to SI for all specifications and agreements involving
measurement there could be no dispute about the meaning or interpretation of
the data. This would apply whether the contract was dome
I would add to this the observation that the US has shown itself in the past
to be quite capable of adopting a Nationwide standard administered by a
Federal government agency.
The so called customary units used throughout the US are such a standard.
There are no variants of the pound, pint, ga
: "Stephen Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:44 PM
Subject: [USMA:35146] Re: The pitfalls of double conversion.
Philip S. Hall wrote:
"Neil Herron is a classic example of what I was talking about. He r
Apologies for not replying earlier, Daniel. Neil Herron may well be a
member of ARM but if he is, he's certainly keeping it a secret as I'm
certainly not aware if he is or not.
He seems more concerned with scoring petty points off Sunderland council
nowadays.
Neil Herron is a classic exampl
400 mL equals 13.5256 FL. OZ.,which rounded*
appropriately would be 13.5 FL. OZ. while14 FL. OZ. equals
414.0287 mL,which rounded* appropriately would be 414 mL.These
equivalences do not seem to be close enough to justify labeling 400 mL as
being the same as 14 FL. OZ. So, I have
I've attempted to give a general idea on this several times. It's a lot to
ask for a definitive list of everything. Try doing the same for the USA and
see how complex and time consuming it all is.
Phil Hall
Are you saying the UK is more metric then the pro-imperial side is willing
to admit?
There are people who are pro-imperial that believe in the concept, and
support the idea of, the EU
That depends on what is mean't by "pro-imperial"
I can understand the position of anyone who doesn't like metric disliking
the EU because the latter requires metric. I don't see how anyone can be
Also - in the UK we have people who are pro-EU and pro-imperial as well as
pro-metric and anti-EU.
I think it's short sided to attach too much politics or "right wing - left
wing" to whether people use yards or metres.
Next we'll be saying that coffee drinkers are all Tories and only
socialists
Re: 5 points
Dear Philip,
My response is interspersed between your comments in red.
on 2005-10-30 04.11, Philip S Hall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Pat
You wrote:
The Australian experience was similar; little force came from either
federal, state, or local government bodies. They passed the
Dear Pat
You wrote:
The Australian experience was
similar; little force came from eitherfederal, state, or local government
bodies. They passed the minimum amountof laws to facilitate the change and
they removed any legislativeimpediments to metrication. Overall, they did do
one thing th
> ... If there is an error in the sign
after it has been > vandalized, then the authorities should be
informed. It should be pointed > out to the authorities who was
responsible for the vandalism and that the > vandals are actually doing
more then changing units, they are changing > actual
What exactly is full metrication? It is the stated position of the U.S.
government to make SI the predominant or preferred system of measurement
but
not the exclusive one. I don't think the U.S. (or U.K., Canada, etc) will
ever be 100% metric for all endeavors. I don't think that it is
reali
ot my head around that.
From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Subject: [USMA:35018] Re: The pitfalls of double conversion.
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:34:22 +0100
But it is because of dual measures that this
But it is because of dual measures that this sort of muddle arises in the
first place.
There is no virtue in campaigning to keep it that way.
Phil Hall
- Original Message -
From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 1
I'm not quite sure what to make of the figures Remek. They look wrong even
allowing the possibilty for double conversions. The distance to the moon
varies between about 360 Mm and 400 Mm. The article has it as 300 000 miles
converted to 483 Mm, so if the figure in miles was taken from metric, th
Actually knowing that 1 mm rainfall is 1 L/m² is quite useful, even though
it is more simply stated as the former. It tells you how many watering cans
worth of rain your garden gets during a shower (obviously divide by the
capacity of the can in litres).
Phil Hall
- Original Message -
F
I hate to think what the instrument panels are like.
Phil Hall
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:37 AM
Subject: [USMA:35000] Interesting mix of units
http://tomair.com.au/html/our_aircraft.p
14. The EU requires "metric-only" labeling on packaging. The U.S. has a
deferral on the requirement until 2010, but this remains a problem for the
long-term. The EU is the only country that prohibits non-metric labeling.
Non-EU manufacturers should be given the flexibility to use dual labeling as
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