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Re:Pakistan hits 120°F as climate trends drive spring heatwave by ma_advertising on Monday May 23, 2022 @01:45PM (#31482348)
I'm not sure they even have Fahrenheit in Pakistan
Re:Pakistan hits 120°F as climate trends drive spring heatwave by srvmshr on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:12PM (#31482820)
Outside of US, seeing imperial units is pretty rare. Even UK uses metric for most purposes.

If I am not wrong, US is one of those very rare countries (probably just 2?) which doesn't have measurement units codified as a binding standard, allowing NIST to maintain/allow several different, coexisting measurement systems (for e.g. some measurements are reported traditionally in meters e.g. fabric, metals, rod lengths, but several commercial entities also use foot & yards in their product specifications, even if they are derivatives. This is not the norm usually)

Re:Pakistan hits 120°F as climate trends drive spring heatwave by happymellon on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:45PM (#31483319)
We promised to adopt metric, if everyone else agreed to GMT.

They all adopted GMT offsets, yet we have been quite slow to adopt metric.

Re:Pakistan hits 120°F as climate trends drive spring heatwave by cuteboy19 on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:14PM (#31483682)
Still used in medical contexts
Re:Pakistan hits 120°F as climate trends drive spring heatwave by elzbardico on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:37PM (#31483923)
Really? maybe this is a thing that happens only in former British colonies?
Re:Pakistan hits 120°F as climate trends drive spring heatwave by cuteboy19 on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @04:24AM (#31489432)
Even in other contexts its still present as a secondary measure. For example you would measure area in sq foot for land but sq meters for everything else