It seems like a weird point to bring up. How often do y’all convert your measurements? It’s not even a daily thing. If I’m measuring something, I either do it in inches, or feet, rarely yards. I’ve never once had to convert feet into miles, and I can’t imagine I’m unique in this. When I have needed to, it’s usually converting down (I.e. 1/3 of a foot), which imperial does handle better in more cases.

Like. I don’t care if we switch, I do mostly use metric personally, it just seems like a weird point to be the most common pro-metric argument when it’s also the one I’m least convinced by due to how metric is based off of base 10 numbering, which has so many problems with it.

  • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
    6·
    6 months ago

    tbh… being in Canada sucks ass because of it.

    here’s a fun flowchart for Canadians and living with both

    and don’t get me started on date formatting…

    wtf is 1/4/2026. is that January, or April. who sent this… where are they located?

      • klangcola@reddthat.com
        1·
        6 months ago

        Correct! And yet…

        wtf is 2026/1/4? is that January, or April. who sent this… where are they located?

        Though to be fair the chances of ISO 8601 goes up when year comes first

        • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          I mean, if it’s normalized to ISO 8601, then you KNOW that’s January 4th even without dashes or slashes. (although preeeetty sure the standard would require zeros before the 1 and 4 in either case)

    • West_of_West@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      It seems to also be different between provinces. I was shopping in Ontario (from BC) and the fruit was in ounces, which threw me. And at least in BC schools cooking class uses metric not cups.