Originally Posted by
Bill Howatt
Just to deviate bit from inches vs mm, what I love about the metric system has to do with weight/volume units perhaps more useful in the kitchen than the shop but still applicable to mixing shop things too.
In Canada, we are probably sitting on the fence (pickets, actually) because of our proximity to the US.
Add 5 ounces of x, is that liquid 5 ounces or weight ounces - this vagueness is not a metric issue alone, but using metric makes it go away.
Mix a gallon of banana oil into the dry ingredients - is that a US gallon (3.8 liters) or an Imperial gallon (4.54 liters)
Pour in 1 cup of water - is that a US cup (1/2 US pint, 236ml) or an Imperial cup (250ml)
While I'm at it, another source of major confusion here is date format.
In US, the common form is Month-Day-Year so today (Feb 12) is 02-12-2024
In Canada, what is sort of the common form is Day-Month-Year or 12-02-2024 although officially we are supposed to use the metric form.
So when we see a numeric only date there is uncertainty unless the day is 13 and up because we get information both within Canada and the US.
If everybody standardized on the metric form of YYY-MM-DD it would help a lot but...