Das imperiale Maßsystem wird jedoch weiterhin genutzt, insbesondere für Entfernungen, die in Meilen gemessen werden.

Challenges to Adopting the Metric System It is in widespread use, and where it is adopted, it is the only or most common system of weights and measures (see metrication). By this time, almost all the sectors except part of retail trade and road signage had metricated. The metric system is an internationally recognised decimalised system of measurement. England führt im Februar 1971 das metrische System ein: Britische Schrullen auf Europas Altar

Großbritannien verwendet offiziell genauso wie der Rest Europas das metrische System.

In 1988, England alongside Northern England and Wales introduced a National Curriculum in which SI was used as the principal system of calculation and measurement. Metric system.

It is now known as the International System of Units (SI). Das imperiale Pint und die Gallone sind 20 Prozent größer als die US-Maße.

Metrication (or metrification) is the process of introducing the International System of Units, also known as SI units or the metric system, to replace a jurisdiction's traditional measuring units.

Eine 2012 ins Leben gerufene Petition ans Weiße Haus, das metrische System doch einzuführen, trägt fast 50.000 Unterschriften.