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Change is hard. In Europe we wanted to drop daylight saving time, but nobody could agree on which hour to keep. So it's here to stay. Sigh.
Same thing in North America.
Actually no. This year was the last spring forward, at least for the US. We're not falling back to standard time this year and never will again.
Leave it to the US to, in the choice between a "standard" thing and an off-standard thing to choose the off-standard option.
they didn't really try. it's more of a suggestion (and still is). metric is standard in the US within science, just not among regular folks because commercially it's not as dramatic, i.e. news stations dramatize 100F!!! since it sounds way more dramatic than 38°C. if the news and commercial products started using metric, people would quickly switch over.
unfortunately a lot of imperial shit has started migrating to europe due to chinese products being produced for the US market and then sold in europe as an afterthought using imperial units.
Remember buying TVs in centimetres?
It's actually UK legacy. UK moved to metric but US didn't.
https://www.vox.com/2015/2/16/8031177/america-fahrenheit
they did not move entirely, they still use miles and such
they are the imposter, deserve orange mark on the map LOL
@aproposnix @sisyphean so you're a genXer or a late #boomer
Definitely GenX NOT Boomer.
@aproposnix @sisyphean in my experience genxers are just boomers who SHOULD know better.
lol