Dr Bruce Griffiths said the following on 03/31/2007 08:24 PM:

> The second reason is somewhat spurious, other countries have converted 
> from the imperial to the metric system without major difficulty or 
> expense. It wasn't even necessary to change all road signs overnight.

There's a joke about a European country (Sweden?) that changed from
driving on the left to the right.  The joke is that they decided to have
all the trucks change over a week before the passenger cars, just to
make sure it went OK...

John

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