they didnโt really try. itโs more of a suggestion (and still is). metric is standard in the US within science, just not among regular folks because commercially itโs not as dramatic, i.e. news stations dramatize 100F!!! since it sounds way more dramatic than 38ยฐC. if the news and commercial products started using metric, people would quickly switch over.
unfortunately a lot of imperial shit has started migrating to europe due to chinese products being produced for the US market and then sold in europe as an afterthought using imperial units.
You already got me dying mentioning 38c. Its just a case of what youโve grown up with. USA should defo swap, but they would have to display both for a long time for people to understand. If the weather and such started showing both and mentioning temps in both, then yeah it would probably take off.
@sibachian and thatโs better. You can easily tell, 100 is too hot to play outside, and 0 is too cold to play outside and everything else is fine.
Change is hard. In Europe we wanted to drop daylight saving time, but nobody could agree on which hour to keep. So itโs here to stay. Sigh.
nobody could agree on which hour to keep. So itโs here to stay
Is it really? I thought it was just postponed. Or do you say it juat because it seems to be always postponing
Maybe Iโm too pessimistic.
The parliament voted to abolish them in 2019, but instead of agreeing on a specific time, or discussing it at the council level, they polled each country individually. We got incoherent results, obviously, and I donโt think any progress has been made since then.
Admittedly they had bigger fish to fry, so maybe once the covid and the war are over, itโll get sorted out.
Actually no. This year was the last spring forward, at least for the US. Weโre not falling back to standard time this year and never will again.
De-juro, US already uses metric - thereโs samples and document and stuff like that, just like in other countries. This makes it even more peculiar, because itโs just the people that arenโt willing to drop some old system that they brought from the colonial British Empire with them back in the day; youโd think it only makes sense, with all the freedom and independence tendencies, but somehow the archaic measuring system from the monarch is still vigorously beloved and defended by millionsโฆ even though theyโve declared independence from the monarch a couple of centuries ago.
We live in a weird world.
Itโs actually UK legacy. UK moved to metric but US didnโt.
Someone should set a new โshitamericanssayโ
Ik it exists on reddit, but it would be nice to not make it around Americans.
Something around people, who think that what theyโre used to is default everywhere
@MentalEdge @WhiteBlackGoose is that !BANG supposed to do something?
there are 2 countries in the world that use Fahrenheit I know off the top of my head.
- USA
- Liberia (Used to be USA colony. Slaves were sent there after they were freed after the civil war)
More than 1 country in the world is retarded
Some older people in the UK still prefer Fahrenheit, Celsius is still the official/default unit however.
A politician here recently tried to promote returning the UK to Imperial units, it has gone nowhere so far.
Yes, because the suggestion made everyone laugh hysterically, even here in Australia lol.
It does seem superior for the weather and cooking.
Having the weather between 50-100 instead of 10-40 kind of makes sense.
And for the cooking, having the steak temperature at 130-135 or 135-145 is clearer than 54-57 or 57-63.
Not that Iโd think it would make sense to change, but it just seems plain stupid how we like to pretend the imperial system would be inferior and stupid.
Having the freezing point of water be at 0 instead of 32 just makes infinitely more sense.
Celsius is also kinda arbitrary, but at least it sets its 0 and 100 to very fundamental, observable temperatures, namely the points where the state of matter of water changes. There are more constraints to it of course, in particular atmospheric pressure, and the modern definition of Celsius is actually purely based on Kelvin (which in turn uses the Boltzmann constant), but as long as youโre not high up in the Andes, everybody can observe a pretty good approximation of it.
Its prevalence is also the outcome of a long process of many different scales. In 19th century Europe, before Celsius completely took over, Rรฉaumur was also very popular. It set 0ยฐ at the freezing point of water and the boiling point at 80ยฐ under normal atmospheric conditions. Thinking about it, itโs quite wonky to do that, but at least itโs easy to convert to and from Celsius. On the other hand, the similarity in temperatures makes it slightly harder for plausibility checks.
I ran into this when researching the history of some stuff and the specific scale was not always included, but the temperatures in the particular context both made sense as Celsius and Rรฉaumur. Thatโs when you then have start digging through a whole early 19th century 500 page book printed in a German Gothic font just to see whether the specific temperature scale is mentioned anywhere.
Only if youโre measuring water temps. In general it makes more sense to put the zero of your scale at absolute zero
Fahrenheitโs 0 is the freezing point of water - salt water that is. Not that I think itโs better, just that there was some thought put into it.
Itโฆ isnโt. That would change wildly depending on which sea/ocean you get your saltwater from (more salt = colder freezing point).
It really is defined relative to a very specific brine mixture (in the most scientifically generous origin story - some say he literally just measured the coldest winter day he could). Well except it isnโt anyway, because like all US units nowadays itโs defined against metric units (namely the Kelvin, just like 0ยฐC is actually defined to be 273.15 K).
I live in the United States and although I grew up here using Fahrenheit, I switched to Celsius almost 10 years ago. Part of my reason for switching was the rest of the world was using Celsius and every time they would mention the temperature, I had no clue if that was very hot, or just right and kept having to convert, so since there were not that many countries that used Fahrenheit, I switched. I still know what the comfortable range is in Fahrenheit, but now I also know in Celsius as I use it every day. Also, I no longer appear to be an old curmudgeon that is resistant to using a system the rest of the world already uses.
Remember the easy round estimates for common numbers. 30F/0C is the freezing point, room temperature is around 70F/20C, very hot weather is 100F/40C, boiling point is 210F/100C, -40 is where they both converge.
Itโs actually 32/0, 68/20, 100/37, and 212/100, but these are close enough. The actual conversion is C=(F-32)/95, or F=C5/9+32
