> The US has been metric since 1988, however the continued use of > customary units during the indefinitely long transition time is the > problem. Fundamentally it seems there is a lack of political will to > place a definite cutoff date on the use of customary units.
I have friends who work in the auto industry. They reported (over 10 years ago?) that all new designs are metric. I wonder how much it would help if GSA gave a serious preference to things that were metric? What's 8.5x11 in metric? Do we have to convert to A4 too? For real fun, look at bicycle parts. I remember seeing one part that had 25.4 threads per inch. What fraction of the military is metric? Do they buy potatoes in kilos or pounds? > One would have thought that with the advent of computers using the > "survey inch" and related units for new surveys would have vanished by > now. There is probably a lot of legal baggage there. I'll bet they will be one of the last holdouts. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
