This image seems very wrong, as far as I know Australia, Canada, Ireland, and pretty much most of Europe should all be orange or purple and the United States should be red or orange. The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 was voluntary only.
The only imperial units I’ve ever seen in Europe, excluding the UK, are pipes and screen sizes where we use inches. Which is quite curious, since nobody knows how long an inch is, so TV sizes are basically an abstract unit that we memorize.
Pipes are the same, people know what a 1/2 or 3/4 pipe is, but I’d bet nobody thinks of that as the same unit they use for TVs.
The screen sizes thing is pretty recent. Back in the day when we still used CRT’s it was common to use centimeters for TV sizes. It only really changed once TV’s got bigger.
the diagonal measurement is just abstract now anyway. They’re even advertised as “XXin class” because the actual measurements don’t matter, people just want to know if it’s “the next size up” or not.
Australia went metric in the early 1970s, the only imperial vestiges remaining are a tendency to quote height in feet and inches as well as cm (younger people are as likely to use metric, old people cling to feet for that), literally everything else is metric unless dealing with the US forces it - ie car tyres worldwide are inches.
Pretty much all of Europe has been officially metric for over 100 years.
The relevant Wiki says Australia and Canada are officially metric since 1970, but that Canada halted metrification in 1985 and uses a lot of US customary units due to high reliance on US manufacturing.
This image seems very wrong, as far as I know Australia, Canada, Ireland, and pretty much most of Europe should all be orange or purple and the United States should be red or orange. The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 was voluntary only.
The only imperial units I’ve ever seen in Europe, excluding the UK, are pipes and screen sizes where we use inches. Which is quite curious, since nobody knows how long an inch is, so TV sizes are basically an abstract unit that we memorize.
Pipes are the same, people know what a 1/2 or 3/4 pipe is, but I’d bet nobody thinks of that as the same unit they use for TVs.
The screen sizes thing is pretty recent. Back in the day when we still used CRT’s it was common to use centimeters for TV sizes. It only really changed once TV’s got bigger.
I only have vague recollections of those days, but if you ask me, we used to measure TVs by the Kg… Those things were beefy AF.
Same in Australia. We measure tvs and monitors in inches, but literally no idea what an inch is lol
the diagonal measurement is just abstract now anyway. They’re even advertised as “XXin class” because the actual measurements don’t matter, people just want to know if it’s “the next size up” or not.
Australia went metric in the early 1970s, the only imperial vestiges remaining are a tendency to quote height in feet and inches as well as cm (younger people are as likely to use metric, old people cling to feet for that), literally everything else is metric unless dealing with the US forces it - ie car tyres worldwide are inches.
Canada is mixed for sure.
Pretty much all of Europe has been officially metric for over 100 years.
The relevant Wiki says Australia and Canada are officially metric since 1970, but that Canada halted metrification in 1985 and uses a lot of US customary units due to high reliance on US manufacturing.
But if they did what you suggest then they couldn’t bash America as easily. Come on! Get with the program!