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Calling half a billion people stupid is not really a great way to start a thread. Besides, it is not stupid: it is a natural translation from written words to numbers.

 

Personally, I use the ISO date format yyyymmdd. Using ddmmyy is not acceptable, if only because of its ambiguity - you do not know if someone is using that or mmddyy (most of the time, anyway). See:

 

https://xkcd.com/1179/

 

A.

 

 

I do support the notion that it is stupid for people to keep using measurements that went out of use decades or centuries ago in most of the world. Whether they be half a billon or not.

 

Why?

 

- It is standard in all countries, only US, Myanmar and Liberia have not adopted the metric system (according to the CIA Factbook).

- Lowers cost, as you buy from a standardized worldwide market.

- Makes you competitive, as you sell to a standardized worldwide market.

- Makes equations in science and engineering logic and easy to learn & calculate, thus also implemented in the US.

- It reduces risk, thus even the US military has adopted (most of) it through the NATO STANAGs from the Military Office for Standardization established in London in 1951.

 

So help yourselves and stop using hp, miles, gallons, inches, psi, am & pm and other outdated measurements.

 

 

And YES, you do look stupid in the eyes of the world - sorry.

 

 

FYI. The correct way to write a local date & time is: 2016-04-19T17:34:26Z+1

 

The Z+1 is so that you know it is in the UTC +1 timezone.

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France officially adopted the metric system on 10 December 1799.

 

 

By 1872 the only principal European countries not to have adopted the metric system were Russia and the United Kingdom, and by 1875 two thirds of the European population and half the world's population had adopted the metric system.

 

 

In 1927 several million people in the United States sent over 100,000 petitions backed by the Metric Association and The General Federation of Women's Clubs urging Congress to adopt the metric system.

The petition was opposed by the manufacturing industry, citing the cost of the conversion.

(Not much changed there - following the lead of conservative older brother the UK)

 

 

The root cause of the loss in 1999 of NASA's US$125 million Mars Climate Orbiter was a mismatch of units

The spacecraft engineers calculated the thrust forces required for velocity changes using US customary units (lbf·s) whereas the team who built the thrusters were expecting a value in metric units (N·s) as per the agreed specification.

 

Source: Wikipedia

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