The US lives in a metric gray area. It has a few laws requiring that consumer goods list both metric and US customary measures, but it still remains isolated in its US customary measures bubble.

The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was in metric units. Today, the American public remains mostly on the side of US customary units. Polling from 2016 found that only 32% of ...

Why we still deal with metric conversion in the U.S. Be wowed up and down the Jersey Shore Your next getaway: Clarion County, PA ...

Hillger says that even countries that have fully adopted the metric system also measure certain things in U.S. customary units or their own local system of measurement.

The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was in metric units. Today, the American public remains mostly on the side of US customary units. Polling from 2016 found that only 32% of ...

All countries use the metric system to varying degrees. Most of the world has adopted the metric system as their official system of measurement with one major exception: the United States.

The measurement debate actually goes back to our nation’s very beginning. The original metric system was developed in France during its revolution, and was so radically decimal that it divided ...

The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was in metric units. Today, the American public remains mostly on the side of US customary units. Polling from 2016 found that only 32% of ...