Originally posted by Ex Finn. Only in Amerika!
(Dec. 13 2015)
Indeed. Use the same date format as the rest of the world? Too complicated! Much better to dream up our own format, just similar enough to cause confusion. Actually, it amazes me that they haven't switched either the minutes or hours, or the minutes and seconds, to get their own time format.
One coherent decimal based system for distance, area, volume, mass, and force? Too complicated! Our medieval system is much more
intuitive! (You know, like an iPhone.)
Do not despair, my Usanian friends! You are not alone in the world! According to wikipedia.org only these few countries, shown in green, have adopted the metric system:
Now, that should be reason enough not to get a K-3!