06-29-2018, 06:38 AM
(06-28-2018, 10:52 PM)KevinL Wrote: Anyone who purchases lumber or other home improvement products can tell you the importance of having regulations in Imperial. EVERYTHING is in feet and inches.
Actually plywood thicknesses are metric. Of course the thicknesses chosen happen to be very close to 1/2”, 3/4”, etc., but the official measurements are in millimetres.
It’s a travesty that we haven’t finished SI conversion. It should be required that all items sold in Canada must default to displaying and using SI. If you want to re-configure your stove to display Fahrenheit, fine, but everything should start in SI, thereby giving everybody the choice to use it if they want.
Also the government should switch to using A4 paper and require it in all contract (RFP, etc.) submissions. I think pretty quickly offices in general would start using A4 for everything and we could get rid of our weird letter/legal sizes.