On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 21:45, District Webmaster wrote: > True -- but the tins of food are all metric, the petrol is sold by the > litre (as is the Ribena, if memory serves). To be fair, they do use a > lot of metric in Britian -- but I think they serve as an example of how > difficult it is to change.
Only because they're in the EU. Most Brits I knew hated that everything they bought was in metric, they didn't understand it. The kids are better though, as they learn some metric in school. Steve ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
