Lee Winter writes: > Astute observers will note that the Imperial/American system of units > has already been converted to an ISO basis.
And that the metric system has been an official standard and legal for trade in the USA since 1866. The USA was one of the original signatories to the Metre Convention. International metric standards have been the fundamental standards for length and mass in the USA since 1893. > That is why the modern inch is DEFINED to be 2.54 cm. -- L. As of 1959. The difference is that US residents are still permitted the liberty of using the units with which they are comfortable rather than those which the all-knowing government imposes. Of course, "units" is always there to do the conversions for you... -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
