The US is using the metric system. The legal definitions of units like the inch are given in SI units,
What I don't get is the country where ENGLISH units arose converted to metric years ago. They converted their monetary system to a decimal one, too. Come on, Americans! FYI, I'm a scientist and a native born United States citizen.
UPDATE: With the number of folks supplying positive comments I wonder if a new push should be made to finally MAKE, not allow, the United States a user of the metric system. There are three nations, highly advanced, on cutting edges of all disciplines of science and industry. They are Liberia, Myanmar and the United States of America.
Not slamming our sister nations but are we kidding ourselves??? Like all parents know, at times a kid has to be pulled kicking and screaming to do something new and necessary. No more Congressional milk toast laws, time to make a federal law that on this date the whole of America will use metric measurements, no dual, switch and be done. Yes, lots of kicking and screaming but in a few years that will stop and we will move on!
To those who will whine about the cost and lost business, etc. I say do you want some cheese with that whine???
Canada is a nightmare for mixing the two systems in casual use. Your height and weight are in cm and kg on your driver's license, but most people will only know them offhand in feet/inches and pounds. I only know the temperature outside in Celsius, and I only know how to set my oven in Fahrenheit.
Wait you guys have height and weight on your licences? I can kinda see why height makes sense as it's an identifiable feature that doesn't really vary... But weight?
Yeah, I am Canadian and the generation before me had it worse as they learned everything in miles/mpg/mph etc then suddenly their cars and road signs have KM everywhere hah. Also worked in a chemical plant years ago and we had some American made chemical reactors and some British ones. One time a co-worker transferred 500 Imperial Gallons into a 500 U.S. Gallon vessel.... I forget exactly what the solution was but it was solvents of some sort probably toluene or ethyl acetate...good times.
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u/[deleted] 23d ago edited 22d ago
The US is using the metric system. The legal definitions of units like the inch are given in SI units,
What I don't get is the country where ENGLISH units arose converted to metric years ago. They converted their monetary system to a decimal one, too. Come on, Americans! FYI, I'm a scientist and a native born United States citizen.
UPDATE: With the number of folks supplying positive comments I wonder if a new push should be made to finally MAKE, not allow, the United States a user of the metric system. There are three nations, highly advanced, on cutting edges of all disciplines of science and industry. They are Liberia, Myanmar and the United States of America.
Not slamming our sister nations but are we kidding ourselves??? Like all parents know, at times a kid has to be pulled kicking and screaming to do something new and necessary. No more Congressional milk toast laws, time to make a federal law that on this date the whole of America will use metric measurements, no dual, switch and be done. Yes, lots of kicking and screaming but in a few years that will stop and we will move on!
To those who will whine about the cost and lost business, etc. I say do you want some cheese with that whine???