Originally Posted by Artmo
True, but by law all foodstuff in shops is now sold in metric weight/measure and people use metric for personal height/weight. Temperatures changed to Celsius years ago but it was a long time before the weather forecast went solely metric. For years F and C were quoted until people got used to it.
I wish they would do the same here. They made talked the talk in the 70s but no one walked it. They do the dual labeling on foodstuffs here to, but everything is talked about in metric units. Except for scientists, soda bottles and some other things I can't think of.