Eorzean Units of Measurement

[ArkhamNative]

1. Can you really say the UK has totally switched over? Crazy brits buy fuel by the liter, but then drive in miles and calculate efficiency by miles per gallon.

Not totally, but they're nearly there, and making progress. Food labeling is solely in metric. Any recipes published in the last 10? years. Oven temperatures and weather temps, too. Most recently was a law change forbidding butchers from selling things in lbs, caused a pretty big outcry, but it happened. The miles & miles per hour are the last on the list, apparently. EU countries (er, those that switched to Euros ) are all metric.

In its defense, the US military and of course US scientists are all metric. (Military is even date format DD/MM/YYYY.)

[Mjollnir]

Most recently was a law change forbidding butchers from selling things in lbs, caused a pretty big outcry, but it happened.

fyi, that didn't cause a pretty big outcry because it never happened.

Dates and temperatures aren't imperial/metric. They're just different localisations.

[ArkhamNative]

fyi, that didn't cause a pretty big outcry because it never happened.
Dates and temperatures aren't imperial/metric. They're just different localisations.

Well it was all over the (UK) news at the time, and I personally witnessed butchers and customers making jokes and gripes about it.
OK, maybe Celsius is only SI. Regardless, the US's continued use of Fahrenheit is contrary to the rest of the world and international standards, as is its use of MM/DD/YYYY. (Perhaps that date issue is more of a pet peeve of mine than anything.)

[Mjollnir]

Well it was all over the (UK) news at the time, and I personally witnessed butchers and customers making jokes and gripes about it.

Weird. I'd not ever heard of it so I Googled and couldn't find anything either. Sounds like it might have been typical tabloid misinformation - I actively avoid that style of 'news'!

OK, maybe Celsius is only SI. Regardless, the US's continued use of Fahrenheit is contrary to the rest of the world and international standards, as is its use of MM/DD/YYYY. (Perhaps that date issue is more of a pet peeve of mine than anything.)

It defies logic! I wouldn't care except the US makes so much software that I use and then defaults to that layout, it peeves me too lol The spelling thing, I can deal with, but that date format? Why???

[Lucke]

Not totally, but they're nearly there, and making progress. Food labeling is solely in metric. Any recipes published in the last 10? years. Oven temperatures and weather temps, too. Most recently was a law change forbidding butchers from selling things in lbs, caused a pretty big outcry, but it happened. The miles & miles per hour are the last on the list, apparently. EU countries (er, those that switched to Euros ) are all metric.

In its defense, the US military and of course US scientists are all metric. (Military is even date format DD/MM/YYYY.)

As an American scientist, I can confirm this. The American scientific community uses the metric system in their work. The commercial and normal citizen use mile/foot/inch sometimes centimeter if we're feeling gutsy.

Well it was all over the (UK) news at the time, and I personally witnessed butchers and customers making jokes and gripes about it.
OK, maybe Celsius is only SI. Regardless, the US's continued use of Fahrenheit is contrary to the rest of the world and international standards, as is its use of MM/DD/YYYY. (Perhaps that date issue is more of a pet peeve of mine than anything.)

We (scientists) also use Celcius and Kelvin as well. But yes, most Americans use Fahrenheit. We're very stubborn =D