It seems like a weird point to bring up. How often do y'all convert your measurements? It's not even a daily thing. If I'm measuring something, I either do it in inches, or feet, rarely yards. I've never once had to convert feet into miles, and I can't imagine I'm unique in this. When I have needed to, it's usually converting down (I.e. 1/3 of a foot), which imperial does handle better in more cases.

Like. I don't care if we switch, I do mostly use metric personally, it just seems like a weird point to be the most common pro-metric argument when it's also the one I'm least convinced by due to how metric is based off of base 10 numbering, which has so many problems with it.

Edit: After reading/responding a lot in the comments, it does seem like there's a fundamental difference in how distance is viewed in metric/imperial countries. I can't quite put my finger on how, but it seems the difference is bigger than 1 mile = 1.6km

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[–] 27 points 9 months ago* (10 children)

tbh... being in Canada sucks ass because of it.

here's a fun flowchart for Canadians and living with both

and don't get me started on date formatting...

wtf is 1/4/2026. is that January, or April. who sent this.. where are they located?

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    As always, the only correct date format is ISO 8601

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Correct! And yet....

    wtf is 2026/1/4? is that January, or April. who sent this.. where are they located?

    Though to be fair the chances of ISO 8601 goes up when year comes first

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    I mean, if it's normalized to ISO 8601, then you KNOW that's January 4th even without dashes or slashes. (although preeeetty sure the standard would require zeros before the 1 and 4 in either case)

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oof. A good while back, I worked in a US-based company with offices globally, and they upgraded to a global ERP system. At launch of the new system, documents (such as purchase orders) printed with dates in MM/DD/YYYY format. Thankfully, my suggestion to change that to DD Mmm YYYY (eg. 31 Jan 2026) was quickly implemented without any pushback, but it totally blows my mind that a company operating globally would default to such an ambiguous date format.

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