Should we go metric by the end of like...2013? Hell no.
Should we start teaching metric along with imperial and eventually just drop the latter? Sure!
Edit: To be honest, I don't see the big deal. There's 2.54 cm's in an inch. OH NO, it's not a nice number. I personally can live without it.
I agree with all but the Date. I already know metric measurements and celsius, but changing the order of the date would confuse the hell out of me. It makes more since the American way because it's ordered how you would say it, you say "December 21st, 2012" not "21st of December 2012" or anything like that... as far as I know anyway.
Anyway it's not really that big of a deal. The conversion is not difficult and if you can't do it I'm sure there's an app for it
Last edited by Amsden; 2012-12-21 at 07:45 PM.
gross. Canadian here. i perfer imperial to metric. mainly because most of the oil/gas industry (which im in) uses it.
Decimal time isn't arbitrary, per se, but it requires differing lengths for a second, minute, etc.
I am very well-disposed towards the French Republican Calendar, however. Under that calendar you have twelve months of thirty days, three weeks of ten days per month, with four or five intercalary days to account for leap years.
Last edited by Elegiac; 2012-12-23 at 02:31 AM.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
As a Canadian I know both systems pretty well. Everything in Canada is a mix of both systems. we measure things in both feet and inches as well as metres and centimeters. Weights go the same way.
I honestly think the metric system is a little bit better. In the end it's easier to manage when scaling things from a few milligrams to tonnes etc. Same with measurement. I can give you the distance from my house to the local shop in a measurement scheme used to analyze bacteria if need be without really thinking about it.
The biggest problem with using Inches is when yo go anything less.. okay.. so you've got half inches, then quarters, then eighths. It's all fine and good, but that's not accurate.
They really should adopt what the rest of the world does. Any professional business uses the metric system anyways. It's only consumer products that end up getting the old system.
i did rofl so much when reading this thread ppl changed subject from metric system to history. I can understand some1 is proud of their country, even i am proud of my country. But when your talking about 600 years of history and all inventations made in america during that, did your mind ever cross where your roots are? or did columbus instantly turn american, when he "found" it (which he didint, but this is just example).