The change from imperial to metric measurements started when the UK joined the European trading bloc in 1973, but it wasn’t until 2000 that shops, market stalls and supermarkets faced ...

The Imperial measurements system was first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and 1878. Imperial measurements were used to measure length, mass, or capacity in a standard way.

But the US system of measurement is not the same as the UK’s imperial system. An imperial pint is 1.2 pints in the US. A US gallon is approximately 0.83 imperial gallons.

“I use the analogy of an iceberg,” she says. On the surface are U.S. imperial units, but many industries already use metric measurements, including food labels, car speedometers, and thermometers.

The imperial system uses inches, miles and gallons as units of measurement. It's almost the same as the system commonly used in the U.S., with a few small differences. Under the plan, it would be ...

Many attempts to make units of measure standard have come and gone through the centuries. While some of these systems have been successful for a while, over time discrepancies began to develop ...

In another concession to the Brits, imperial equivalents displayed alongside the metric measurements were also permitted. Today, many Brits use both systems, sometimes simultaneously.

It’s because weights and measures are the currency of life. The truth is, many of us use both imperial and metric, depending on the situation.