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Time to double down on the metric system (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it's time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.

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[-] Bilaketari@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That would be the correct way to do it. Just one or two digits for most common sizes, from shots to full glasses. I'd say a very large percentage of European beers, wines, etc. measure that way, and the remainder use mL.

[-] nihilist_hippie@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Seems to be a cultural thing. Here in Canada I see mL and L most often for drinks.

One quirk of metric I have taken a liking to recently, is in Japan, apparently they measure their object dimensions in mm. 'The size of one sheet of Letter paper in mm is 279.4mm x 215.9mm.' I don't know why, but for some reason I like this.