On my recent trip to Burma, all the drink volume's were in millilitres only. I think the only thing that has not changed are the speed limit signs which seem to be irrelevant anyway as all vehicles are imported with km/h speedometers only.
Burma is way ahead of the US in this respect. Mike Payne On 11/09/2012, at 09:19 , "John M. Steele" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe. We really need to see a bottle, not an ad. (The ad would be legal in > the US). If the bottle net contents are metric-only, no local supplemental > unit, and that complies with Burmese law, then Burma is ahead of the US in > metrication. For items regulated by Federal law, metric-only labelling is > generally illegal (dual is required) in spite of lip service by Congress that > metric is preferred system of weight and measure for trade and commerce. > > Preferred but insufficient, and preferred is not even required on > random-weight packages. Congress' position on metric is a complete joke. I > wonder if a metric-only bottle of Coke is legal in Liberia. If so, we stand > alone. I am not aware personally of any other country that broadly requires > local, supplemental units, although some allow it. Anyone else? > (Yes, I am ignoring certain narrow requirements like pints of beer and miles > of road.) > > I wonder if Congress realizes this makes us the laughing-stock of the world. > Of course, Congress does several other things with the same effect, but that > would be getting into politics, not metrication. We won't go there. > > I know NIST has a permissive-metric-only (PMO) amendment to the FPLA ready to > go (since 2002, in fact). However, with opposition by FMI and a fractured, > divided Congress that can't do anything right, I can not forsee a time when > it is "ready" to bring to a vote. Changing a word here and there in an > attempt to appease FMI is "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic," and a > decade has been lost. PMO will only happen if one or more parties with more > clout than FMI support it vocally (and with political contributions that > exceed FMI's??). > > --- On Tue, 9/11/12, Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA:51894] Coca Cola in Burma > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 8:17 AM > > The BBC reported that Coke is again selling its product in Burma. The > associated picture at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19550067 shows a > large advertisement for 200 ml bottles/cans (?) of Coke for Rs 5. > > > Is this an indication that Burma is moving further down the metrication path? >
