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Is Myanmar Finally Going Metric? > ENGINEERING.com noting Myanmar may finally adopt a standard measurement system | Coconuts Yangon
Metrication, Adoption of the Decimal Metric System of Weights and Measures by Country: Burma is one of the last non-metric holdouts, along with Liberia, Samoa, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau -- and the United States.
I haven't been able to find anything with any detail on Liberia and the metric system.
Some officially-metric nations are only part of the way there, it must be conceded. Nations like Canada and the UK.
The US had a push to adopt the system in the late 1970's, but it fizzled out. Seems to me like a casualty of the end of the Sixties reform era, much like the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion.
More recently, Lincoln Chafee included a proposal to convert to it in his running for President in 2015 (Switching to the Metric System Is Officially a Presidential Campaign Issue – Mother Jones, Chafee: Go bold, go metric - CNNPolitics). He is a former US Senator from Rhode Island.
So the US is likely to continue to muddle ahead, with the metric system mainly being used in technical and behind-the-scenes applications.
Presumably metric units, because that's what Burma's biggest trading partners use.
Metrication, Adoption of the Decimal Metric System of Weights and Measures by Country: Burma is one of the last non-metric holdouts, along with Liberia, Samoa, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau -- and the United States.I haven't been able to find anything with any detail on Liberia and the metric system.
Some officially-metric nations are only part of the way there, it must be conceded. Nations like Canada and the UK.
The US had a push to adopt the system in the late 1970's, but it fizzled out. Seems to me like a casualty of the end of the Sixties reform era, much like the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion.
More recently, Lincoln Chafee included a proposal to convert to it in his running for President in 2015 (Switching to the Metric System Is Officially a Presidential Campaign Issue – Mother Jones, Chafee: Go bold, go metric - CNNPolitics). He is a former US Senator from Rhode Island.
So the US is likely to continue to muddle ahead, with the metric system mainly being used in technical and behind-the-scenes applications.
