The United States and United Kingdom shared a system of measurements until 1824, when the Weights and Measures Act standardized the existing British customary units, changing them slightly, and ...

It caught my eye because the units of measurement for the same product weren’t the same. The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was in metric units.

The US lives in a metric gray area. It has a few laws requiring that consumer goods list both metric and US customary measures, but it still remains isolated in its US customary measures bubble ...

Confoundingly, the U.S. has stood on the sidelines for centuries as the rest of the world has adopted the metric system as its standard not only in science but in everyday life. (Meanwhile, we ...

The UK formally adopted the Metric system in 1967 and traders have been legally required to use Metric units like milligrams, grams, and kilograms for sale by weight or measure of fresh produce ...

All countries use the metric system to varying degrees. Most of the world has adopted the metric system as their official system of measurement with one major exception: the United States. “The ...

It caught my eye because the units of measurement for the same product weren't the same. The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was in metric units.