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> All water bottles in the US have both mililiters and fluid ounces on their label. That's actually required by federal law. A lot of commercial regulations in
by johncolanduoni 9y ago
> All water bottles in the US have both mililiters and fluid ounces on their label.
That's actually required by federal law. A lot of commercial regulations in the US require metric measurements in addition to imperial.
- jaggederest 9y agoLegacy of the 1970s-1980s attempt to move the US onto the metric standard. Don't tell people who are annoyed by metric, but all the 'imperial' units we use now are 100% based on metric units. Our metrology has been metric since that time, all the day-to-day usage is derived units. Which is why an inch is exactly 2.54cm instead of some rounded fraction.