----- Original Message ----- From: John Frewen-Lord To: vliets...@btinternet.com Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [USMA:43685] Re: Metric personal data was Re: 24 hour time
Both my Canadian citizenship card and my Ontario Drivers Licence give my height in centimetres. I contributed an article to the UK Metric Views website entitled 'User Friendly' metric. Go to http://www.metricviews.org.uk/ There I suggest using cm (sorry Pat N), as people can then express their height verbally as, say, One Seventy Eight - which can be interpreted by the listener as either 178 cm or 1.78 m - both are the same value. ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Vlietstra To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:24 PM Subject: [USMA:43685] Re: Metric personal data was Re: 24 hour time I have never seen people's heights given in millimetres, only in centimeters or metres. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Hooper Sent: 11 March 2009 15:17 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:43679] Re: Metric personal data was Re: 24 hour time On Mar 10 , at 5:02 PM, John M. Steele wrote: Interesting. Has anyone ever insisted on giving metric height on either a US Passport application or a state driver's license? If so, how did it go? It's been a long time since I was issued my passport and my drivers license so I don't remember those particular cases. However, when asked for my height and/or mass, I routinely give my height in metres (or centimetres or millimetres - I'm still a little ambivalent in this regard) and my mass in kilograms. I just checked my passport and find that neither height nor mass is listed on my infomation page. It is possible that it was never required in the application in the first place. My height in ft & in is on my driver's license but my mass is not given. So I must have given them my height. If I gave it in metres they converted it; more likely they specified ft. & in. so I gave it that way. (I do admit to acquiescing to official government agencies when they specify that they want the information in Ye Olde English units.) Regards, Bill Hooper Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA ========================== Make It Simple; Make It Metric! ==========================
