On 2004 Jul 17 , at 11:50 AM, john mercer wrote:
<x-tad-smaller>Do you think they will do a hard metric conversion lets say from one gallon to 4 L, or do a soft conversion to 3.8 L?� When the dairy industry in Canada went metric they did a hard conversion from 1gal. to 4 L.�
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I think I heard that in some places they've tried 3 L milk containers. Since they needed a new container anyway (since litres are bigger than quarts) they tried the 3 L container instead of the 4 L container that would have been closer to the old gallon. I think they did that because many people found the old gallon (and a similar sized 4 L container) to be too big and awkward to handle. The 3 L container seemed to be much easier to pour from.
I'm drawing this from memory so I'm not sure how accurate it is. Does anyone else recall this? I think it was discussed on this list.
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