Pat Naughtin asked in USMA 22010: > >Through the night, I heard this news item on the BBC World Service. I didn't >believe what I was hearing so I looked up the item and found it at: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2229208.stm > >As you can see, either the Mayor of Tainan has decided that his city will >revert to old measures such as pounds for trade, or the BBC reporter, Damian >Grammaticas, has translated from kilogram to pound for his own purposes. I >suspect the latter. > >Dear Joe, > >Do you know when Taiwan and Korea adopted metric measures. I seem to recall >that these two nations now have the most severe laws about using old >measures. This is one of the reasons that I don't think that the Mayor of >Tainan would be training his citizens to use pounds. > >Cheers, > >Pat Naughtin
Taiwan went metric in 1954; North Korea in 1947; South Korea in 1949. -- Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
