In the event of a substantially mixed system, such as the one currently in use in Canada, this resolves to YES. Isolated specialty cases such as I-19 signage and scientific uses aren't sufficient to resolve this market to YES.
More specifically: Define an "everyday measurement" to be one that people use frequently in everyday life. This includes but is not limited to: The temperature of the air outside, the temperature at which to cook food, the distance to the nearest city, the height of a person, the dimentions of a piece of furniture, the weight of an everyday object, the weight of a person. If at least 3 everyday measurements are being given primarily in metric at the time of market close, and those everyday measurements were not being primarily given in metric at the time this market opened, this market resolves to YES. Otherwise it resolves to NO.
The above paragraph refers to how normal people actually talk about those quantities, not just how they're labelled on the package.
Nov 15, 3:15pm: Will the United States be using the metric system by 2035? → Will the United States be using the metric system by the end of 2035?
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What do you mean by "using the metric system"? The US already uses both customary and metric units like Canada does. Consumer goods produced in the US are already labeled in both customary and metric units, and are increasingly sold in round metric quantities (e.g. 500 mL drink bottles have replaced 16 oz ones).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States?wprov=sfla1
@athenaciara Yeah but people don't actually use those units in the course of their everyday life. I've edited the description to have more specific resolution criteria, since my original ones were extremely vague.
Metric is already in use on one highway in the US...
@Boklam Interesting, I didn't know that. That won't be enough to count though, it needs to be countrywide. (Nor is the fact that NASA and other scientific organizations in the USA tend to use metric.)
