We're Getting Rid Of Daylight Savings Time
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Can we also get rid of the metric system?
Yeah, if we don't want to sell to the rest of the world. Easier to be "bilingual" in both systems. If you need to do dimensional calculations, metric is far easier as the physical units automatically turn up in the calculation. No hunting around for conversions between calories and British Thermal Units.
I was told in HS that we needed to learn metric as the USA will change over to that system eventually. That was over 50 years ago.
A lot of it has. Science is overwhelmingly metric. All electrical technology is metric. I can't think of any medical technology that isn't metric (excepting maybe taking of weight and height). Radio technology is metric. The innards of most automobiles are metric to facilitate overseas and out-national production. Anything sold to the world is bound to be dual-dimensioned. Sports are increasingly metric.
You think that's bad? At least you guys have kept weight measurement fairly simple as in you would say "I weigh nnn pounds".
Here in UK we still use the pre-medieval measure of "stones" - there are 14 pounds in a stone. So it is very common to hear someone say "I weigh 14st 7lb" (st=stone, lb=libra=pound)
Maybe the three countries in the world not using metric should get rid of their medieval unit systems instead.