I remember many years ago renewing  International  Flight Crew ID, I believe it 
was Universal Aviation https://www.universalaviation.aero/ But I clearly wrote 
down in the height and weight box 173 cm 67 kg. I came back that my Height was 
67 inches and my weight 173 pounds. I had to call them and get it changed, 
which they did. Again, why have feet and inches on an international ID?

Mike Payne

> On 27 Sep 2019, at 17:13, TechGuy YouTube Channel <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Several years ago, doctor office in NYC during physical, the nurse measured 
> my weight and then I saw her taking a calculator and converting to kilograms 
> as software had these as an input. A few years later, another physical and 
> that office used pounds.
> A few months ago I applied for passport, form had field for height where I 
> entered height in cm. Person at the desk told me that they won't accept it 
> but I insisted it to be sent that way. Anyway, application was not declined, 
> but passport came back with non-metric units written in it. That is where it 
> makes the least sense, as passport is here to be readable my all other 
> countries... all other that don't use feet and inches.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:42 PM James R. Frysinger <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I went to a routine podiatry appointment (diabetic foot care) in Sparta 
> TN today. Sparta has a population of just over 5000 people and it's the 
> county seat of White County, in Middle Tennessee.
> 
> When asked for my height and weight I gave them in meters and kilograms 
> and they were recorded without a flinch. Now, I cannot say that the 
> staff didn't convert those values later, but at least they didn't act 
> like they've never heard of metric units or thought that using them was 
> strange. Not bad for a small, country town.
> 
> Jim
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