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<blockquote data-quote="Iron Sheep" data-source="post: 451501" data-attributes="member: 4965">I adjusted on the day-to-day level pretty quickly after I got here too.&nbsp; It's more that I don't have the &quot;gut feel&quot; for the US measurements.&nbsp; When I think of a kilogram, part of that concept in my mind is the feel of the heft of something that masses about a kilo.&nbsp; If I think of a temperature of 30C, connected with that is the feeling of the heat of a typical summer day in Sydney.&nbsp; I don't have that sort of feel for a pound or for a 80F day.This probably says more about the way that my mind works than the relative merits of different systems of measurement.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It could happen, but I'm not holding my breath.&nbsp; My observation is that there's too much fear of the metric system (or the change required to implement it) amongst &quot;typical&quot; Americans, which means there's easy political mileage to be had from exploiting that fear.&nbsp; Although I am surprised that so much engineering in the US still hasn't switched to metric.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iron Sheep, post: 451501, member: 4965"] I adjusted on the day-to-day level pretty quickly after I got here too. It's more that I don't have the "gut feel" for the US measurements. When I think of a kilogram, part of that concept in my mind is the feel of the heft of something that masses about a kilo. If I think of a temperature of 30C, connected with that is the feeling of the heat of a typical summer day in Sydney. I don't have that sort of feel for a pound or for a 80F day. This probably says more about the way that my mind works than the relative merits of different systems of measurement. :) It could happen, but I'm not holding my breath. My observation is that there's too much fear of the metric system (or the change required to implement it) amongst "typical" Americans, which means there's easy political mileage to be had from exploiting that fear. Although I am surprised that so much engineering in the US still hasn't switched to metric. [/QUOTE]

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