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Measures weren’t standard before the french revolution, so picking something and getting buy-in was easy. Time keeping was well established, and the French moved to a metric calendar, and proposals for metric time were made, but all were eventually rejected.
Measures weren’t standard before the french revolution, so picking something and getting buy-in was easy. Time keeping was well established, and the French moved to a metric calendar, and proposals for metric time were made, but all were eventually rejected.
Honestly, that explains perfectly why America will never likely switch to the metric system.
It will happen because there is so much traction on metric, but it will be slow and both systems will be marked for a long time.