There UK still used miles per hour for speed limits, and I’ve debated how we may change with my partner.
I think the battle here is now lost - if you want to use km/h a sufficiently advanced modern car will show you the current speed limit and convert from imperial to metric for you. In the ten-to-twenty years a full change would take to complete we’ll proabably have cars which are close to self driving, so who cares what value they use for speed limits?
But for everything else - please do look to the UK as an example. We converted in the 1970s and it’s still a bit messy today, but it’s mostly worked.
Beer at a pub/bar is mostly sold in pints, but to sell in litres is legal. Bottles of beer are often 330 or 500 ml.
Wine is sold in millilitres, as are spirits.
Basic milk is in pint sized containers (sizes in litres are shown). ‘Fancy’ milk is often sold directly in litres.
You get the occasional container which is a weird size - like golden syrup is still sold in a 454g (1 lb) container.
Ovens can be dual calibrated, and English language recipes often already will give both metric and imperial units for readers in the UK, AU, NZ, CA, etc.
When cooking - if I find an American recipe with unconverted values I will just use Google (“what’s 6oz in grams?’), etc. In fact a bigger problem for me is that American recipes tend to use volumetric units (e.g. 4 cups of flour) where I’m used to weight (e.g. 500g of sugar).
I think the battle here is now lost - if you want to use km/h a sufficiently advanced modern car will show you the current speed limit and convert from imperial to metric for you. In the ten-to-twenty years a full change would take to complete we’ll proabably have cars which are close to self driving, so who cares what value they use for speed limits?
But for everything else - please do look to the UK as an example. We converted in the 1970s and it’s still a bit messy today, but it’s mostly worked.
Beer at a pub/bar is mostly sold in pints, but to sell in litres is legal. Bottles of beer are often 330 or 500 ml. Wine is sold in millilitres, as are spirits.
Basic milk is in pint sized containers (sizes in litres are shown). ‘Fancy’ milk is often sold directly in litres.
You get the occasional container which is a weird size - like golden syrup is still sold in a 454g (1 lb) container.
Ovens can be dual calibrated, and English language recipes often already will give both metric and imperial units for readers in the UK, AU, NZ, CA, etc.
When cooking - if I find an American recipe with unconverted values I will just use Google (“what’s 6oz in grams?’), etc. In fact a bigger problem for me is that American recipes tend to use volumetric units (e.g. 4 cups of flour) where I’m used to weight (e.g. 500g of sugar).