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but the acre is going
The European parliament on Tuesday 16 Dec 2008 saved the pint and mile from EU extinction, saving British and Irish drinkers from having to order half litres or drive at under 110 kilometres per hour.
Under the measure, agreed without a vote at a second reading in the Strasbourg chamber, traders will also be able to display imperial and metric measurements side by side in shops and elsewhere.
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January 1, 2010 deadline
St Lucia will soon turn away from the old Imperial System of measurements and usher in the international system of units; the Metric System. The metric system is not entirely new to the island; over the past few years St Lucia has been using both the imperial and metric systems of measurements. It isn’t the first time a transition from the imperial to metric system has been attempted.
In 1978, St Lucia’s then metrication committee took the first steps to move towards the international system of measurements. Their achievements included the inclusion of the metric system in school programs. Back then there was no obligation for the commercial sector to adopt the metric system but now with the European Union’s January 1st deadline for the metric system to be put in place, further steps have been taken to fully implement the metric system.
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New SI derived unit
ISO has just published a new version of the SI Guide, a small manual for the use of the SI, the International System of Units (Système International d’Unités). ISO SI Units Guide
The SI is a comprehensive metric and decimal system based on units and derived units. The seven base units are: length, mass, time, electric current, thermodynamic temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity.
This new edition of the SI Guide includes for the first time:
one new SI derived unit: the katal, symbol kat (1 kat = 1 mol/s) for the quantity of catalytic activity – essentially used in clinical chemistry, it can also be used in other fields of chemistry
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Sign it NOW
If you agree that it’s high time the UK finished the long drawn out process of metrication, you may wish to sign the e-petition here.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/MetricNow/
A few old people and slow learners may be slightly confused during the final stages of the changeover. However, we did it with decimal currency in 1971 and now who would dream of turning the clock back to the days of pounds, shillings and pence?
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