>Britain's traditional imperial measures had been set a deadline of 2009 to change to metric measures, but that has now been scrapped following a change of heart at the European Commission.

oh dang... I so was looking forward to seeing the US going with metric measures. 4 years living in the country, and I have been refusing to learn to convert between inches, miles, centimeters, kilometers, pounds, kilos, gallons, litters... <s>