Yes, the Aussies do seem fully into the metric system. I was there for a month in 2011 and never encountered a reference to US measures. Although I didn't go to a hardware store, I did inspect some drainage pipe being installed by road workers, and as I recall the PVC pipe was marked as 10 cm or maybe 100 mm diameter. There were a few road signs in rural areas marked as KMS. Speedometers on cars are less cluttered without our dual number sets.
HARRY WYETH Sent from my iPad On Jan 6, 2013, at 19:24, Paul Trusten <trus...@grandecom.net> wrote: > 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 > trus...@grandecom.net > > > On Jan 6, 2013, at 13:20, "Martin Vlietstra" <vliets...@btinternet.com> 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: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] 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 <p...@mckerracher.net> >> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> >> 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 >> >>
