Didn't mean to strike a nerve or create animosity. What did I say bad about Canada? "Dave you obviously haven't spent much time in Canada.": Yea: Safe statement. LOL I live in Alaska, my home is in Alaska, Canada requires a passport & limits my time there & ..... "US failed to get with the program." "They are in fact the only country that couldn't! " To me ; it's OK that Canada use the Metric system, & I'm OK using both in the USA. I like Canada. But don't have any plans to move there any time soon though. Have several Canadian friends is visit with when in So California. All pretty good folks who like the USA & many winter & own property in the So West USA. All my Canadian friends do OK at the grocery store with ounces gallons pounds, quarts & 1/5ths Do ok buying a six pack of 12 oz cans. And always stock up on quarts of whiskey when headed home. They liked paying $2.69 US for a US gallon of gas They do OK using yards , feet & inches, on the golf course I'm not sure but I think their cars odometers are in miles. Wheels sizes in inches, No ? When I need to convert, I use a binary computer, fast simple & easy : Like to convert the US $ to the Canadian $:
Another screwy thing is the North American standards for paper. (Letter /legal) vs the rest of her world which uses the A papers. A4 being similar to letter paper. The A system makes so much more sense as all the paper sizes are uses proportional to each other. A5 is two pieces of A4. A4 folded in half is two pieces of A3. Makes it really easy to shrink or enlarge things.
Dave, Odometers are in kilometers, just as US can change the setting. New Yorkers go to New Jersey to pay $2.69 for a gallon of gas. Don't think anyone is upset...just kidding around. Seriously. Ha! Decipher that. Wonder how the birds and butterflies cope when they cross the border.
I need to upgrade my vehicles. I'm sure the newer ones have options of kilometer, celsius & maybe even convert to/from english, french spanish numbers. LOL
with so many baby boomers and with being close to the US, imperial measurements are alive and well in Canada and most Canadians over 30 are bilingual when it comes to measurements. We still cook with cups and table spoons, most contractors use feet and inches and most still talk about mpg for their vehicles but that would be a imperial gallon which is different from a US gallon....which opens up a whole new can of worms. I'm a surveyor in a civil engineering department in Canada and I prefer to use decimal feet when doing optical surveys (levels) as survey rods are graduated in 10th and 100th of a foot and you can then estimate down to 1/1000th of a foot. Most metric rods are graduated similarly in 10th and 100th but 1/1000th of a foot is much tighter than 1/1000th of a meter or 1mm. 1/1000th of a foot about 1/3 of a mm. I routinely measure to this precession optically. When real precession is required I use a digital level and bar code rod and can measure to 0.01mm (or .0004 inchs) That's a surveyors or engineering tape measure and I have several. I once handed one to my uncle while building a dock. It took him about 3 minutes to try to figure it out and was about to throw it into the lake when I stopped him
I sold commercial office furniture for many years, my best lines were from Canada, in metric. My order input screen was in inches. Several hundred line items to convert and input was a PIA.
Our prints for our construction jobs always have the elevations in feet and tenths. Its easy to use. But I could never figure out if the measurements were with the tide in or out.
Let's not even get into pi vs pie. A local math teacher makes up a pie for fellow staff members each March 14 in a square pan. He insists that pie are square.
If you've been to Louisberg in Nova Scotia, then you will believe the French could do anything at that time.
