SaraMGY'all, America desperately needs to embrace the metric system.
Fer reals.
Jim Goodall@saramg There are only three countries in the entire world NOT using metric.
Liberia
Myanmar
United States
America is in good company.
Scott Williams 🐧@jimgoodall @saramg When the English and Aussies weigh themselves in "stone", which metric system are they using?
@vwbusguy @saramg
Stone predates metric.
I'm Canadian and use both imperial and metric, because I'm old enough.
Try being in Canada and measuring distances in hours driven.
Construction measurements are metric, but when you measure yourself, it's feet and inches.
Shipping weight is metric, but a person's weight is pounds.
Weather temperature is Celcius, but normal body temperature is 98.6 degrees.
It's a bizarre mix.
Reay Jespersen@jimgoodall @vwbusguy @saramg Out of curiosity, which construction measurements are metric?
We had a reno done recently, and decided our ceiling heights in feet, all the studs remain 16" on-centre, etc.
I'm old enough to still weigh myself in pounds (vs. the doctor weighing my daughter in kg, requiring my using a calculator), still use F on my oven, and had until quite recently, for decades, thought I was six feet tall because my driver's licence says I'm 180 cm.
https://www.reayjespersen.com/blog-1/2022/06/22/update-to-the-confusion-about-my-height/
@jimgoodall @vwbusguy @saramg So even in the same industry, it’s still a mixed bag of imperial vs. metric. 🤷♂️
@reay @jimgoodall @saramg That is an issue for American cars. I've had Fords that mixed Standard and Metric on the same vehicle and it was incredibly frustrating.
@vwbusguy @reay @saramg
I was visiting the Canadian NORAD bunker in North Bay, Ontario, many years ago. I looked at the three big diesel generators there, & they were English Electric brand, out of the 50's. The guys there told us about how when they were first installed, the fasteners on them were all British Whitworth threads. Once they were operating, all modifications done on them were done with SAE threads. In the 80's, they went metric.
THREE full sets of tools required to do anything.
I was visiting the Canadian NORAD bunker in North Bay, Ontario, many years ago. I looked at the three big diesel generators there, & they were English Electric brand, out of the 50's. The guys there told us about how when they were first installed, the fasteners on them were all British Whitworth threads. Once they were operating, all modifications done on them were done with SAE threads. In the 80's, they went metric.
THREE full sets of tools required to do anything.