Section 204 of the Metric Act of 1866 could also be put to use with the DMV (or anywhere else, for that matter): -
It shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system; and no contract or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system. If that is taken literally your doctor, the DMV, and everyone else have to accept metric units if you give these to them. Carleton -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pierre Abbat Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 22:45 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:52591] DMV was Date Format On Thursday, March 28, 2013 21:05:01 Stanislav Jakuba wrote: > No, I never did. I mean, I do not want to irritate or confuse those > kind of people. They have their orders. But I do use that Y-M-D > everywhere unless there is a specific order outlined. I used the Y-M-D > even in my passport renewal application and ended up born in > Connecticut (instead of Czechoslovakia). But the date was rewritten > okay. You see my point about confusing them?. How did they get Connecticut out of Czechoslovakia? I went to the DMV today and asked them to correct my height (which has changed a bit in the past ten or twenty years). I measured it a few days ago as 1.515 m. The examiner didn't know what I was saying and I told her that, if they can't accept a height in meters, they're at least 35 years out of date. I'm going to write to the DMV. I know some points to make: *The metric system is preferred, by Federal law. *All cars today are built in metric. *7.3% of the population of North Carolina, and 12.8% of that of Mecklenburg County, are foreign born; most of those grew up metric. What are some others? I know Paul Trusten has written about using only metric units to express a patient's mass. What about a patient's height? The Spanish version of the driver's handbook has distances, but not speeds or vehicle weights, with metric equivalents. Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.
