Robin Laing wrote: > > > Standards are there to make things easier. When will the US join the > Metric System? But that is off topic. :) > I believe, officially, the US did agree to use the metric system, and we've tried to do so several times. But so far nobody has noticed or listened. http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/Metric/lc1136a.cfm