I'm glad to see South Korea doing it. I do find it unlikely that once FPLA amendments pass the government will take any sort of active role in metrication and mandate anything though.  After all, federal government agencies which should have been switched long ago are still doling out projects in inch-foot-pound measures in clear violation of their own directives. The only way I see it happening in the US is making conversion voluntary and only mandating SI units after a long period of voluntary has gone through. If voluntary labeling goes through by 2010 (which hopefully it will) I would foresee a ten year or so period of long use in the commercial sector before government would actually start mandating switches in other areas.  That's not the way we all hope it will go but it is a possibility.

As an example , I was talking recently with a friend who works for the state government and he mentioned that Idaho as a state is officially dropping all use  of SI for all state funded projects and switching back to US Customary.  The main reason he gave was that even federal government agencies were still handing out drawings in USC and providing bids in USC, as well as an extreme level of distaste among the higher ups in the various state agencies towards the use of SI.   He personally is a little annoyed that he has to relearn all his measurements but not enough to do anything about it or  as he put it "rock the boat" :). 

Hopefully we'll see a strong effort on the part of the government as it listens to those of us who are for conversion and we don't have to drag it out, but getting Americans to do anything has always proved problematic :).



On 10/22/06, Paul Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Looks like Korea has finally had enough of non-SI units:
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200610/kt2006102220054910510.htm

And for those wondering if the USA can clean up by 2010,
Korean retailers are being given less than a year....

Paul




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