Hi John I also read with interest the Korea's new law in Metric Today. When a small country like Korea (625 billion $ GDP) can enforce such rule, definitely a large country like China (4.9 trillion $ GDP) can also enforce the rule. I think the Chinese use yyyy-mm-dd format in date and this is very important particularly in the expiry date for food and medicines. Ref : http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ks.html http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html Sadly China is a Communist country. One happy thing to note is that they do have freedom of press & religion. Let us hope that they move slowly towards democracy. Madan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
2001-07-17 I received my Jul-Aug copy of USMA toady and found the cover article very interesting. The article is titled: KOREAN STANDARDS & TESTING GROUP REPRESENTATIVE VISITS USMA. I am not going to copy the whole article here, but their is something very interesting to report: ...the Korean government revised it measurement law to mandate that measurements be expressed in SI units after 1 July 2001. Violation of this law could result in a JAIL (emphasis is mine) sentence or a substantial fine. The law covers both mandating the production of goods in SI units and also requires the importing of goods that are manufactured to SI units. Later: According to (Byung-Soo) Youn, the newly revised Korean LAW ON METROLOGY (Italics) targets manufacturers and importers who may be fined up to $4000 or a YEAR'S PRISON TERM (emphasis is mine) for using non-SI units after the set date of 1 July 2001. Now, if only every country would have a law with that type of bite in it. Just think how many American companies or companies from other countries still manufacturing in non-SI, will not be able to sell goods in Korea. Korea needs to push this concept Asia wide. I wonder if this law will help force the US to do something to convert or become mad at Korea. John Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrt�mlich glaubt frei zu sein. There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they are free! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
