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| Thread ID: 121113 | 2011-10-12 03:33:00 | National Sillimeter Month - Hah! | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1236986 | 2011-10-13 01:27:00 | SJ as I recall, in the mid 70's Congress legislated a move to enable metrication. It was achievable then at a reasonable cost, but there was no way fortress America was going to buy into it. As you say, the short term cost seems too prohibitive. But long term it may have to be a question of, when do you start? |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1236987 | 2011-10-13 01:46:00 | Roscoe - changeover to metric in the US would be so costly and prohibitively more so in this bad economy, that it isn't even debatable. Not sure about that Joe ... just as an example ... got a funny feeling that with much of the military and civilian aircraft / scientific equipment that is made today using "parts" sourced internationally, metric is used more often than you think. Can't see European / Asian countries which contribute "parts" to the space station switching to imperial measurements. You Yanks would be stuck up there for a hell of a long time if Europe, including Russia, had to convert all the docking systems to imperial measurements. All medical and scientific equipment made in the US has to comply with ISO standards which means everything must be measured in metric ... your Viagra for example ... do you take a 40mg tablet, or still taking a 0.00008818342 or so of a pound ... :D But then again ... like the Queens English, the US have their own quirky way of screwing it up measurements like the Gallon ... The difference between the Imperial gallon and the smaller US Gallon might be explained by the fact that, in the post medieval past, the whiskey filled barrels leaving the shores of UK didn't have the same content when arriving in the new world ... probably coz SJ was taste testing during the long journey and NOT because of evaporation as suggested in Wiki Read more: wiki.answers.com and_a_us_gallon#ixzz1accwaJG6 ... it's just not cricket old chap (Google for clarification if required) |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1236988 | 2011-10-13 01:55:00 | The UK officially went metric in 71 and yet if you go to buy nails or screws they are still sold in imperial sizes. Canada went metric overnight, sure it probably caused a few problems but it's damned hard to do imperial calculations with a calculator as nothing is uniform as in 12 inches to a foot but 3 feet to a yard where as metric it is all by the 100 | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1236989 | 2011-10-13 01:59:00 | I really don't care that the US wants to stick with imperial measurements (although there is a certain irony in the name of the units considering the past history of US/UK relations). I only get annoyed when software and like stuff only quotes imperial and totally ignores metric. And don't get me started on mm/dd/yy vs dd/mm/yy! So what date is 3/4/2011? If only everyone would always use the dd mmm (or mmm dd) form, then we would all know it was 3 April 2011 or April 3 2011. [/RANT] | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1236990 | 2011-10-13 02:01:00 | All the US manufacturers and packagers and builders and installer have done very well on The King's Nose so why change it now? One good reason would be so that you were in sinc with the rest of the world. But that isn't one of your strong points.:stare: |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1236991 | 2011-10-13 02:42:00 | If only everyone would always use the dd mmm (or mmm dd) form, then we would all know it was 3 April 2011 or April 3 2011. [/RANT] I really can not understand why the yanks ever decided on m/d/y as there is absolutely no logic to it. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1236992 | 2011-10-13 02:47:00 | One good reason would be so that you were in sinc with the rest of the world. But that isn't one of your strong points.:stare: And another: being in sync with the rest. :D |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1236993 | 2011-10-13 02:47:00 | I think everyone should use Y/M/D. Makes it easier for sorting in my view. | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1236994 | 2011-10-13 02:49:00 | I think everyone should use Y/M/D. Makes it easier for sorting in my view. Agreed, with the rest of the date/time group added on: hours/minutes/seconds. I think it's some agreed standard already. |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1236995 | 2011-10-13 03:32:00 | I think everyone should use Y/M/D. Makes it easier for sorting in my view.Score one for the Japanese! | Tony (4941) | ||
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