Congratulations, Jim, for obtaining a passport with height in SI! The woman deserves a dozen roses for accepting SI.
---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:46:59 -0500 >From: "James R. Frysinger" <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:47599] Re: UK Transport Minister banishes metric in all >official communications >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > >I successfully obtained a U.S. passport this Spring while giving my >height in meters. > >The passport application can be filled out using one of two methods. The >questionnaire method presumes feet and inches for heights and has blocks >for each of those. The other method provides a raw form that can be >printed as a blank or the data areas of that form can be filled in on >the screen prior to printing. Either of those procedures allows one to >give one's height in meters or in centimeters. > >After calling the passport help line and being given the "OK", I entered >my height as "1.80 m", filled in the rest, printed it out, and submitted >it. I had not problems. It would have been OK, I was told, to have put >"180 cm" in that space; the woman told me just to be sure to show the >unit of measure. > >The application form does not ask for body mass. And I see nowhere on >the passport itself where the height I submitted is listed. > >Jim >...
