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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8811712" data-attributes="member: 82106">I HATE to tell you, but the metric system (SI) IS the legal standard system of the US, period. All regulations and official measures of all sorts are entirely metric. The Imperial system used in common parlance by many people is merely a thin veneer! In any case, official weights and measures are not about the way people describe a 'pint' or whatnot. There's little advantage in bothering to try to dictate such things, as it really has next to nothing to do with anything at all really. The US has a fairly pragmatic compromise. Everything that is measured for some purpose or other is done in SI, and people in their houses, cars, etc. can do what they want and politicians fear not of getting them agitated. However, slowly but surely the metric system is gaining traction as a common system that people use everyday. I mean, really distance and weight/volume (which are generally conflated anyway) are almost all that's left of the old system. People still use 'horsepower' in a few niche cases, but that's mostly cars, which will all be electric (and thus measured in kilowatts soon enough anyway). Heck, my wife couldn't even tell you if 72 degrees Fahrenheit was hot or cold anyway! Same with all the Indians I work with. Nowadays if you want to talk to people, you better be able to speak metric!</blockquote>