[thelist] (OT) Looking for info on units of measurement

[Lachlan Cannon]

Mark Howells wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for the conversion suggestions, but the above is correct.
> We have a project here is Switzerland, where the client thinks it's a waste
> of time including distance details in miles because "nobody uses miles
> anymore". I'm trying to find out how true that is, on an international basis
> (primarily for Japan, US, Canada, India, UK and Europe).


I'm pretty sure Japan uses Metric. At least all the measurements I've
learnt in Japanese have been metric. I could be wrong though.. it could
be because Aus measures are metric or something.

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Lach
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