On Sunday 2003 November 30 17:56, john mercer wrote: > Hello everyone. I have a couple of questions. I was on the U K metric > association web site they said that the measure of weight the Stone is no > longer legal. Could someone tell me when it became illegal?
John: At the latest it was 1991. In that year the Price Marking Order did not list the stone as one of the 'authorised units'. In reality it had disappeared before that. I only ever remember the stone being used in weighing potatoes, and as the wholesale industry went metric some time before that, the stone had already become moribund. >Another > question. When a person goes to the doctor's office in the U K and gets > weighed do they get weighed in kg's or lbs. Thanks for the information. Medical records have used metric for a long time, even for children, despite the fact that new-borns are still described in public as so many pounds and ounces. Often the patient will be told their weight in stones (and height in feet) even though that is not how they are recorded. Interestingly (and somewhat annoyingly) when I had a medical at work recently the scales I stood on had a digital display with only two options: pounds or kilograms. We never describe our weights in pounds here. Chris -- Chris KEENAN
