Australia!!!! A near-perfect changeover seen on my 2007 visit. Metric is the ONLY system. Restaurant steak in grams, sewer cover force on kilonewtons, metric used as reference distances, e.g., "no smoking within 5 meters."
Paul Trusten, Reg. Pharmacist Vice President U.S. Metric Association, Inc. Midland, Texas USA www.metric.org +1(432)528-7724 [email protected] On Jan 6, 2013, at 13:20, "Martin Vlietstra" <[email protected]> wrote: > I lived in South Africa during the conversion process – yes, they are pretty > well converted. One of their techniques was to ban the sale of measuring > devices that had imperial units on them, even dual unit devices. > > AS for the UK – may I refer you to the document – A Very British Mess - > http://ukma.org.uk/avbm-summary. > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > John M. Steele > Sent: 06 January 2013 15:16 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:52111] Re: It's Time For the US to Go Metric on Gizmodo > > I would agree with the poster's comment that the UK is a bit of a mess > because they never fully converted. > > However, I have been to Brazil, Japan, France and Germany which AREN'T messes > as far as measurement is concerned. > Canada and Mexico are slightly messy, but not as messy as the UK. Proximity > to the US is probably part of the problem. I have not been to Australia, New > Zealand, or South Africa, but they seem to have converted pretty well, unlike > the UK, based on published data. > > > From: Phil McKerracher <[email protected]> > To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, January 6, 2013 8:31:58 AM > Subject: [USMA:52110] It's Time For the US to Go Metric on Gizmodo > > http://gizmodo.com/5972438/its-time-for-the-us-to-go-metric > > Includes an interesting comment "Have you actually been to a country that's > converted? I've been to the UK. It's a f*ing mess..." > > -- > Phil McKerracher > www.mckerracher.net > >
