Information Is BeautifulMeasurement unit differences between the U.S.A. and most of the world.
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Jo - pièce de résistance@infobeautiful ISO standard for dates which make the most sense for archives, receipts, forms, and file naming is Year, Month, Day (with year first.)
So I think the graphic on right is inverse. But otherwise yes.
Unless you live in #Canada in which case it’s all of them. Weather is Celsius, cooking temperature is Fahrenheit, roads are km but sewing is yards & inches. It’s all over the place here.
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HollieK@JoBlakely @infobeautiful UK also does weather in Celsius, cooking temperatures in Fahrenheit, but roads in miles, height in feet and inches, and weight in stone and pounds. 1 stone = 14 pounds.
Tattered@HollieK72 @JoBlakely @infobeautiful I remember, pre-Brexit, buying fuel in liters to drive distances measured in miles, so fuel consumption in miles/litre…
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@Tattered @HollieK72 @JoBlakely @infobeautiful Fuel consumption is still in MPG in the UK. Petrol would be too expensive it were still sold in gallons (about £7.50 a UK gallon now) so it's sold in litres to make it cheaper!
@cleeinfobot @HollieK72 @JoBlakely @infobeautiful If you’ve a mileometer on your car, and you buy fuel in liters, you can arrive at mpg by converting units. But then, isn’t that always the case?
Perhaps it is no longer illegal for butchers to sell in pounds, and pubs to sell in pints, but, before Brexit, it was. The curiosity of being British in the EU, a peculiar halfway house of units, in which metres, liters and grams were used alongside miles, feet, pints and pounds, depending upon your activity.
Once, to make a point, my math teacher required his class to calculate the speed of light in furlongs/fortnight… :)
@Tattered @HollieK72 @JoBlakely @infobeautiful Brexit has made no difference to the law regarding units of measure. It's just made them all more expensive. Beer and cider are sold in pints or halves (it's the law) yet spirits must be sold in millilitres, milk can be either pints or litres, loose veg must be priced in kg. Carpets have to be priced by the square metre yet rooms are usually measured in square feet. Jam and marmalade are sold in 1lb jars labelled as 454g. Road signs are miles and yards but petrol is sold in litres. Babies are weighed in kilograms at birth yet everyone converts this to pounds and ounces, humans measured in feet and inches or centimetres, and weighed in stones and pounds. I was one of the lucky ones to be taught both metric and imperial at school - those under 55 have to learn for themselves what these strange units are that many things are still measured in and then, as you say, have to perform calculations to get a sensible unit of measure! It's fun really.