Should America go metric?

[Krayzz]

It would cost too much, and take too much time to change every. little. thing.
There's a lot of shit to change.
Now I do think we should be required to know the metric system.

[Feesh]

I'd say yes except for the calender, always hear people saying the month before the day so it just makes sense to me.

[Gamdwelf]

I'd say yes except for the calender, always hear people saying the month before the day so it just makes sense to me.

we should have metric calenders too with 10 months, and 100 days per month 10 day weeks, etc 10 hours per day, 100 mintues and seconds.

[Masark]

Caliber. I never knew caliber had anything to do with inches.

It's the (approximate) diameter of the bullet (or sometimes cartridge) in inches.

[Deleted]

we should have metric calenders too with 10 months, and 100 days per month 10 day weeks, etc 10 hours per day, 100 mintues and seconds.

pretty sure France tried this before :P

[Reeve]

we should have metric calenders too with 10 months, and 100 days per month 10 day weeks, etc 10 hours per day, 100 mintues and seconds.

100 days per month and 10 months per year don't really make sense. There are 12 lunar cycles in the year that the months are tied to, and a day is the time it takes the earth to turn. Having 1000 days per year means that each day would be 8.76 current hours.

[Gamdwelf]

100 days per month and 10 months per year don't really make sense. There are 12 lunar cycles in the year that the months are tied to, and a day is the time it takes the earth to turn. Having 1000 days per year means that each day would be 8.76 current hours.

its ok, cus our new days would be 10 metric hours long,

[Masark]

pretty sure France tried this before :P

Yep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...onary_Calendar

[Reeve]

its ok, cus our new days would be 10 metric hours long,

Yeah, and there would be no metric unit for how long it takes the Earth to complete a rotation. That would be really messed up from a scheduling standpoint.

[Santti]

Yes, it means it's below freezing, which is really effing cold unless you live in Alaska year round.

I just checked, apparently 0 fahrenheit is the freezing point of Brine.

[Gamdwelf]

Yeah, and there would be no metric unit for how long it takes the Earth to complete a rotation. That would be really messed up from a scheduling standpoint.

thats the whole point of metric, doesnt matter if it makes sense just has to have stuff divisible by 10 to make the math easier.

[PrairieChicken]

Using metric, you can completely trash British units and forget about them

If you use British you need to know both. Waste of time and energy

[Deleted]

I just checked, apparently 0 fahrenheit is the freezing point of Brine.

i guess thats a useful thing to know....

[Mugafo]

Even metric's date is wrong. YYYY/MM/DD sorting by MSD. Also, Kelvin.

Yea, I never understood why we display time in largest to smallest, yet YMD is done in either of those formats from OP.

[Kobor]

I vote for yes, but not soo fast, people need time to get used to it.

In the school we needed to convert from km/h to m/s becasue the m/s can be used in formulas using SI system.
Already seen a lot of length in inches, but it was not a problem, so people in the sates can get used to metric system.

According to date format, we are using the same logical order in Hungary as in Japan: YYYY-MM-DD
Time format is HH-MM-SS, so bigger value at left side, I never understood why need to use different order for date.
Not saying about the impossible mission to decide between the british and american date format. How cam you tell if 2/6/4 is February or June.
And yes if you liked to sort them it is much more sense to see Year and left side, just try it out.

Someone told that 24 hour system need to be learned? Was it serious? My son not 8 years old, but already knows that 20 hour is 8 pm.
For me its obvious when we are saying 21 o'clock, it will be at night. If written only 9 o'clock without am/pm affix it can be either in the morning or at night.

On the top of it, we are consistent to write bigger value on the left side, think because we are reading from left to write.
Addresses: Country, City, Street, Number
Name: Family name then Given name (maybe japanese use the same order at names)
Both can be useful when you have a list of address or names. Like in the post, you can know from it, which belongs to the same city. Or names you will find your family name much easier, becasue they are more unique and people from the same family will be together.

Just like numbers, everbody write 12 300 as 12 thousand and 3 hundred, nobody trying to write in the reverse order. Same reason, you can sort the list, and see which is the biggest at a glance. Just like with dates and rest.

[Deleted]

It means 32 degrees colder than the freezing point of water.

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God Reagan was a jackass. No metric system, the war on drugs...

So basically it means nothing?

[Reeve]

thats the whole point of metric, doesnt matter if it makes sense just has to have stuff divisible by 10 to make the math easier.

But a system of time measurement should be reasonably intuitive and practical. It's practical to have measurements of time that correlate with the waking and sleeping cycles of humans.

[Gamdwelf]

But a system of time measurement should be reasonably intuitive and practical. It's practical to have measurements of time that correlate with the waking and sleeping cycles of humans.

but why not for measurement? Cus that's how the other system started.

[Santti]

i guess thats a useful thing to know....

Was just wondering what was it based on. Thought 0 fahrenheit was just completely random point Mr. Fahrenheit pulled out of his ass and thought it was as good as any to be the starting point.

[Waaldo]

Yes!
We should have been using the metric system a long time ago!