The main three things that must be dealt with in pints (by law) are blood, cider and beer. I don't know how strict this is enforced. The law states that you can sell products with both systems, but metric must be displayed more prominently. British cars still show both miles and km on the speedo though. Some stuff won't change anytime soon, like the use of miles for distance and speed due to the sheer amount of infrastructure that is based on this. My younger family members will give their weight in kg.
I'd say that with each generation, it is more common to use metric in daily use, for example weight. It was only until I moved to a different European country that I became aware of the oddity myself, when people assumed I used either all imperial (loads of people on the continent assume British=American) or all metric. It might sound rather daft, but it rarely causes an issue- in fact most people won't even notice they use both systems in their daily lives. at the butcher's or in the meat raffle at the pub). I use stone and pounds for people weight, but typically metric for the weight of things, but there are still plenty of people who use imperial for things, especially meat (e.g. for now, though, the current system works just fineįor example, my dad would use (and still does) Fahrenheit in the summer and Celsius in the winter, and so did (maybe does?) the weather forecast (they'd show both units on the screen). if you think that converting metres to feet is annoying, just think how annoying it would be to forget to trll your grandma happy birthday because you’re on different planets and forgot that 1 martian year = 1.88 earth years. this might be a problem in the far future, if we ever colonise other planets beause, well, their physical counterparts will be different.
#United kingdom to regress imperial measures full
the problem with redefining everything time-related to be metric is that all of these things have actual physical meaning (eg a full rotation around the sun/its own axis, etc). matter of fact, no matter what you use as a base unit to start from, you’d end up with a non-metric arbitrary multiple/submultiple (eg if you have a metric day, a metric year would be 3.6525 metric hectodays).plus, they don’t really fit well into a day, so you’d still end up with some kind of arbitrary unit (a day is 86.4ks).
the bigger units aren’t used because they never really caught on with anyone and even the people who came up with them weren’t that into them. the base unit of time is the second, and from there you get ms, ns, etc which are used pretty often. the time system is already metric, but it’s been made a bit backwards.the time system is actually thought out to be very divisible into useful whole numbers (eg 60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30), which is for the most part good enough.we’ve had the time system for longer than the imperial system.
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