Canada began its transition away from the imperial measurement system more than 50 years ago. Now, a Victoria man is petitioning the federal government to finish the job, one kilogram, centimetre and litre at a time.
    • TheSecondVariety@lemmy.ca
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      34 minutes ago

      I believe so, but this guy wants to go after everything else like getting trades to use it and make metric the default setting on electronics.

      IDK if thats the best plan or if he realizes what an uphill battle certain things might be. Like ovens; our oven somehow switched over to metric on thanksgiving and it totally messed me up, I spent a LOT of time figuring out how to change that back to F. Another issue is industries that just aren’t going to want to change: aviation, boats I think are imperial, railways are, home building, etc.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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        7 minutes ago

        2x4 is just a name/label now. They haven’t been those inch dimensions in a very long time.