On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, George Shirley wrote: > IIRC the US went metric years ago, just no one enforces it. The military > has been metric for at least 30 years or more and I believe the fed > agencies also use the metric system. Just seems the general populace > doesn't want to. > > George Would be a huge costly task in a country like the US. massive infrastructure to convert. I remember switching to decimal currency back in '66, caused a huge heap of confusion here. John