They have quietly been downsizing all our food products. Like boxes being the same size but with less product inside. The worst being the giant economy size of many products is more expensive per unit than the smaller packages which costs the manufacturer more.
I can just imagine our thermostats going Celsius. Turn your freezer to -17.77778 negative for 0 degrees? And your room temperature to 22.22222 for 72F degrees?
I spent a month in Birmingham UK in 1999 getting custom industrial machinery built. The drawings for our machines were in inches/feet for our use but the drawings and specs sent to the shop were all metric.
If they did it would have been in the past year, but I don't think they have.
according to my calculations 4535 kg = 9997 pounds.
Zero is the freezing point of distilled water at one atmosphere of pressure
Yes. My family has maintained a condo in Charlotte Amalie (Bluebeards) for many years. We all pitch in paying for it and it rotates through who gets to use for the 2 week period. It is kind of confusing driving especially when making turns. I haven't rented a car there in years and just avoid driving by just taking cabs and walking a lot. From Bluebeards to Pueblo Grocery is about 2 miles. A nice walk but you have to get a cab back if you have groceries.
I was surprised that even in the British VI, right hand drive cars were a rarity. I suppose the difference in shipping costs is a big factor.
My point is that there is nothing "metric" about the Celsius scale. The freeze/boil points of water is handy for defining it, but otherwise just as arbitrary as Fahrenheit 0/212. Multiples of 10 have no more meaning in C vs F and there are no "deci-degrees" or "kilo-degrees" in either scale. And dividing that arbitrary centigrade range by 100 achieves nothing but creating a rather fat degree that near always has to be further divided to have any practical use, whether at home or in a factory.
Ok, but it seems easier to me to remember that 100 deg.C is the boiling point of water, instead of 373.15 K.
Who is "We've"? However, IIRC, GTE Lenkurt back in the late 1960;s, where I then worked, used metric time on their timecards to punch in. ".1" was a tenth of an hour, or six minutes.
Folks in our household and everyone else who has done the same.
OIC. I do not care if clocks go metric or not but at least use 24-hour time. No need to use 12-hour when analog clocks are very rare.
Agree.
I think that will confuse a lot of people until they get very used to it.
It is already happening, IMO. Albeit very slowly. IMO, metric is being slowly sneaked in on us.
Very rare? I've seen them in stores, I've seen them in airports, all but a couple of clocks in our house are analog, other than those on microwave ovens and such. Perhaps they're rare for you, but I see them all the time. Still I, too, would like to see 24 hour clocks in use a lot more, even on analog clocks (there's one on my wall 6 feet away).
Yeah, I should have said "somewhat rarer" these days. I just noticed I have an analog ham radio MFJ ham world clock right next to me--but it is a large 24-hour analog clock:
