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 ...

But the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 was voluntary, “so the government really didn’t force anybody to go metric,” Hillger says, though it did permit companies to make the switch.

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 ...

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 ...

Although the United States hasn’t adopted the metric system as the sole system of measurement, in reality, we use the metric system every day. “This is particularly the case in medicine ...

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 ...