>Throw this little bit at your senior engineer. Enacted July 28, 1866. > >http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/laws/metric-act.html > > >Text of the law >The Act was codified as 15 USC 204 et seq., shown below. > >U.S. Code >Title 15 >Commerce and Trade >Chapter 6 >Weights and Measures and Standard Time >Subchapter I >Weights, Measures, and Standards Generally >Sec. 204. Metric system authorized >It shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the >weights and measures of the metric system; and no contract or dealing, or >pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection >because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights >or measures of the metric system.
This was precisely the law I was trying to refer to back with the discussion of Caltran's reversion to Colonial measure. Doesn't this law require Caltrans to accept tenders for road construction in metric ? I realize it doesn't outlaw tenders in Colonial measure, but it would appear to give them a choice between metric only or either system. ------------------------------------------------------ Tom Wade | EMail: tee dot wade at eurokom dot ie EuroKom | Tel: +353 (1) 296-9696 A2, Nutgrove Office Park | Fax: +353 (1) 296-9697 Rathfarnham | Disclaimer: This is not a disclaimer Dublin 14 | Tip: "Friends don't let friends do Unix !" Ireland
