>>>>Thank you, Dragan, I have always wanted to say that, but I did not want to upset anyone. Why not throw in the miles/yards/feet/inches measuring standard also? And the Fahrenheit (duck!). <bg>
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>>>Do I sense a fellow European metric nostalgy sentiments? :)
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>>>I think there's no chance USA will ever go metric. How else could they put the price for house brand items in dollars per pound, and for the others in dollars per ounce? Nobody can multiply by 16 out of their head nowadays...
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>>Never say never, even the british got away with their old pound/shilling/penny money system some 20-30 years ago. And if someone is good at clinging to their old habits, it's the british.
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>My serious doubts... and crazy hopes at the same time.
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>Coming here, I remember training myself into these units of measure, to the extent that I tried to remember what were the units for phases of the Moon... and then I remembered that there aren't any.

Many of my in-laws spend much time with orienteering, and they use compasses where a full circle is 400­° in stead of 360°, so you never really know what comes next. Maybe a metric calendar?