Liberia was completely metric, Myanmar sold fuel at old (and I mean old) gas pumps in Imperial Gallons, the fuel truck at the airport was in liters, the speed limits were in km/h except that they were in the local script which was unreadable to me, I asked the driver what the speed limit in town was and he said 48 km/h. This is a direct conversion from 30 mph, fairly weird but there might be lead in the water! The lav truck at the airport had US Gallons as the quantity, but it was a new truck and probably imported from the US as such. Temperatures in the local English language newspaper were in both degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius. A real mish mash of units, but overall substantially metric even if they were non standard numbers (48 instead of 50 km/h). Once the speeds have converted, most of the population will use metric or the previous local units. Definitely not US Customary.
Michael Payne > [Original Message] > From: MightyChimp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 23/5/04 14:07:34 > Subject: Re: [USMA:29925] RE: Metrication > > You have? Well, can you elaborate on your experience? > > Euric > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, 2004-05-23 13:31 > Subject: [USMA:29925] RE: Metrication > > > > Although Liberia and Myanmar have not officially adopted the metric > system, > > they are to all intent mostly metric. I've been to both countries and > wrote > > the article that appeared in Metric today about 7 years ago. It's > > unfortunate, the way it's worded gives the impression that they are not > > metric. > > > > Michael Payne > > > > > > > [Original Message] > > > From: Stephen Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: 23/5/04 10:03:03 > > > Subject: [USMA:29921] Metrication > > > > > > Since Wikipedia has been a topic of conversation lately, can some > > > of you take a look at its article on "Metrication" at:. > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication > > > > > > If anybody sees inaccuracies, or topics they feel should be made, > > > and they want to let me know, I'll post the changes. You are all > > > free to change it yourselves, if you wish, especially if you've posted > > > to Wikipedia before. I just think that if too many newcomers (and > > > I'm a relative newcomer), start making changes all at once it will > > > raise attention to itself. > > > > > > Let me know > > > > > > > > --- Michael Payne > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet. > > > > --- Michael Payne --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet.
