Palfreyman, Jim L wrote: > Are there actually US people on this list who actually continue to > advocate the use of non-metric units in their country? Speak up! > > Well the USA ever go metric? > > As an Australian, why would I care, you may ask? > > Well because of the dominance of the US market, some things can be sold > here using imperial units. My biggest beef is televisions. Some (mainly > CRTs) are sold in cm. Others (plasmas and LCDs) are marketed in inches. > You walk into a shop and you a greeted with dual units. It is terrible! > > The key to making metric work is to completely chuck out the use of > non-metric units. Having to convert is the hard bit. We've been metric > for 35 years and still having to convert from inches to cm because of > the United States is so annoying! > > I find it hard to understand why a country as advanced as the US sticks > with such an antiquated system. I don't get it. > > > Jim Palfreyman > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list > time-nuts@febo.com > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > Jim
The US has been metric since 1988, however the continued use of customary units during the indefinitely long transition time is the problem. Fundamentally it seems there is a lack of political will to place a definite cutoff date on the use of customary units. With the supposed current emphasis on SI units in the education system hopefully the use of customary units will vanish with a generation or two. One would have thought that with the advent of computers using the "survey inch" and related units for new surveys would have vanished by now. Bruce _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
