Before 1948, LA's Power Grid Ran at 50hz

Re:Before 1948, LA's Power Grid Ran at 50hz by johncolanduoni on Saturday July 08, 2017 @11:51PM (#14728262)

> All water bottles in the US have both mililiters and fluid ounces on their label.

That's actually required by federal law. A lot of commercial regulations in the US require metric measurements in addition to imperial.

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Re:Before 1948, LA's Power Grid Ran at 50hz by jaggederest on Sunday July 09, 2017 @12:04AM (#14728308)

Legacy of the 1970s-1980s attempt to move the US onto the metric standard.

Don't tell people who are annoyed by metric, but all the 'imperial' units we use now are 100% based on metric units. Our metrology has been metric since that time, all the day-to-day usage is derived units.

Which is why an inch is exactly 2.54cm instead of some rounded fraction.

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