• sibachian@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      they didn’t really try. it’s more of a suggestion (and still is). metric is standard in the US within science, just not among regular folks because commercially it’s not as dramatic, i.e. news stations dramatize 100F!!! since it sounds way more dramatic than 38°C. if the news and commercial products started using metric, people would quickly switch over.

      unfortunately a lot of imperial shit has started migrating to europe due to chinese products being produced for the US market and then sold in europe as an afterthought using imperial units.

      • verysoft@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        You already got me dying mentioning 38c. Its just a case of what you’ve grown up with. USA should defo swap, but they would have to display both for a long time for people to understand. If the weather and such started showing both and mentioning temps in both, then yeah it would probably take off.

    • dedale@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Change is hard. In Europe we wanted to drop daylight saving time, but nobody could agree on which hour to keep. So it’s here to stay. Sigh.

        • AtomicPurple@kbin.social
          2·
          2 years ago

          Actually no. This year was the last spring forward, at least for the US. We’re not falling back to standard time this year and never will again.

          • Kichae@kbin.social
            2·
            2 years ago

            Leave it to the US to, in the choice between a “standard” thing and an off-standard thing to choose the off-standard option.