Hey metric system people...

[really]

Ireland has transitioned from the imperial system to metric over the years.

Imperial pounds, shillings and pence (240 pence in the pound) was decimalised at the same time as the UK in 1971.

Long ago engine capacity moved from being measured in pints to litres - litres is ubiquitous now.

Distances were labelled in kilometres since the 70s - old signposts still exist and are popular with tourists. Practically a lot of people use miles for distance.

Speed limits were changed from miles per hour to kilometres per hour in 2005.
Speedometers in cars showed both MPH and KMPH for twenty years before this.

Speedometers and Odometers are now only in KM.

Fuel economy litres per KM are advertised but unknown. Miles per gallon is still hanging on.

Measures of land are still firmly in acres rather than hectares.

In construction metric is pushing imperial out.

The only metric measure that isn't going away is a pint of draft beer. Anything bottled is in metric but draft is sticking with pints.

I saw someone elsewhere who bought American craft beer in a pub giving out when they realised that the pint glasses being used were American sized (473 ml) rather than British sized (568 ml) without being advertised as such - which is not legal.
A pint (568 ml) or half pint is a legal measure in a pub - anything else has to be sold in litres/millilitres.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

 

[Thorgalaeg]

In Russia, colloquial term for car mileage is "Пробег" which means distance traveled.
There is no word mileage, but sometimes the word kilometrage is used. I think this is true for most countries which use metric system.

Edit: From imperial units, we only use inches for screen size and DPI for resolution.

I can also think of a number of specifical cases where imperial units are still in use. Inches in screen size and res, knots and miles are always used for speed in nautics and sometimes for planes along feets for alttitude, pounds-force for things like bows or ballistas... And others units which are neither metric nor imperial, like CV, grain, mm of mercury...

Fortunately all these are very specific and metric systen preponderance is overwhelming. Before its introduction bacl in mid 19th century every province had its own units, for instance there were like 30 kinds of pounds in Spain only, same for other weird units like Arroba, Fanega, Fanega de puño, Celemín, Vara, Hemina, Cuartilla, Azumbre, Panilla, Aranzada, Marjal, Quintal, Panilla, Codo, Onza, Adarme, Almud... all different depending on where you were or who you were asking to.

 

[red_elk]

I can also think of a number of specifical cases where imperial units are still in use. Inches in screen size and res, knots and miles are always used for speed in nautics and sometimes for planes along feets for alttitude, pounds-force for things like bows or ballistas... And others units which are neither metric nor imperial, like CV, grain, mm of mercury...

You are right, I forgot about knots and nautical miles. For planes, both feets and meters are currently used depending on plane model, which I think can be dangerous. Don't know about Airbuses, but Boeings use feets for altitude, while Soviet and Russian planes use meters. There was even one major air crash partially caused by different type of horizon indicator used in Boeings and Tu-154, although this is not directly related to unit systems.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Airbus uses feet and knots like Boeing, only Russian planes use metric. It is a bit hard even for me like a simmer to get used to metric when piloting Russian planes. It pretty cool though to see your speed in proper km/h.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Obviously, being backwards Americans and not metricasificated, when we talked about how efficient the new car is we talked about gas mileage.

Liters per mile

a mile here is exactly 10 km, or 10000 meters

dunno about the second one

why'd you make a thread instead of just asking in the question thread

 

[warpus]

a mile here is exactly 10 km, or 10000 meters

What sort of mile is that?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

why'd you make a thread instead of just asking in the question thread

To give you a thread to go to.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I can also think of a number of specifical cases where imperial units are still in use. Inches in screen size and res, knots and miles are always used for speed in nautics and sometimes for planes along feets for alttitude, pounds-force for things like bows or ballistas... And others units which are neither metric nor imperial, like CV, grain, mm of mercury...

Fortunately all these are very specific and metric systen preponderance is overwhelming. Before its introduction bacl in mid 19th century every province had its own units, for instance there were like 30 kinds of pounds in Spain only, same for other weird units like Arroba, Fanega, Fanega de puño, Celemín, Vara, Hemina, Cuartilla, Azumbre, Panilla, Aranzada, Marjal, Quintal, Panilla, Codo, Onza, Adarme, Almud... all different depending on where you were or who you were asking to.

Wait.

How is mm of mercury not a metric unit?

 

[Thorgalaeg]

It is not an International System aka metric system unit. The height of the column of mercury is meassured in mm true, but the IS unit for pressure is the pascal.

 

[Zelig]

To be fair, in the USA the only time people talk about mileage, as in fuel usage rates, is when they have or are looking at a new car, and what they really mean is the EPA rated estimated mileage as indicated on the MSRP sticker. I doubt that there are more than a handful of people within a hundred miles of me (encompassing about thirty million people) that have the first clue what their actual mileage (of that variety) is.

Most cars from the past five years or so report fuel economy on the dashboard.

 

[Akka]

Airbus uses feet and knots like Boeing, only Russian planes use metric. It is a bit hard even for me like a simmer to get used to metric when piloting Russian planes. It pretty cool though to see your speed in proper km/h.

Feet yeah, but I somehow highly doubt Airbus uses knots.

 

[red_elk]

I believe for planes it's more correct to say miles per hour instead of knots, because knots most likely implies nautical miles.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Feet yeah, but I somehow highly doubt Airbus uses knots.

Why? They absolutely do.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I believe for planes it's more correct to say miles per hour instead of knots, because knots most likely implies nautical miles.

Nautical miles are the ones used in aviation too.

 

[red_elk]

Umm, okay, didn't know that. It makes everything even more confusing.

 

[Lohrenswald]

What sort of mile is that?

a "mil"

To give you a thread to go to.

there already is one

 

[warpus]

I knew that an American mile was different from a British mile, but what sort of a mile is 10 km long? Is this something in use in use in the region before metric took over?

 

[Lohrenswald]

I knew that an American mile was different from a British mile, but what sort of a mile is 10 km long? Is this something in use in use in the region before metric took over?

why did you ask the question again after I answered you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_mile

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Umm, okay, didn't know that. It makes everything even more confusing.

Airplanes and ships are both vehicles moving through a fluid after all, mostly in long straight lines. So nautical and aeronautical charts are similar in some fundamental aspects, they both use the same Mercator projection, very different to a roadmap or a topographic map.

A320 display here: nm is for nautical miles, speed is in knots, altitude in feet and pressure in inches of mercury (pilot can change it to milibars though). A nice mess, but it works: