August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget.

Bullshit. ISO 8601 IS THE SUPERIOR DATE STANDARD
Tomorrow is 2024-08-30. DEAL WITH IT.

America officially switched to the metric system decades ago. We just don't use it on a daily basis, but officially the US is metric.

In 1988 Congress passed the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act, which made the metric system the preferred system of weights and measures for U.S. trade and commerce.

In 1991 President Bush issued Executive Order 12770, which mandated the transition to metric measurement for all federal agencies.

While you're at it, switch over to DD/MM/YYYY for the date format. The only 2 configurations that make sense is that or YYYY/MM/DD. Either go general to specific or specific to general, MM/DD/YYYY makes no sense.

I wish.

But still write dates wrong

August 30 would be 30.08.2024.

This was something I found strange in the new Alien: Romulus film, why were the temperature readings in a science vessel for a space faring civilisation in Fahrenheit!?

Oh shit are the bell riots happening rn? I gotta get prepped

Hey, did anybody remember to turn off skynet yesterday before 2:13 AM?

Laughs in 8th day of the 30th month.

Watching that episode now

That would probably kick off riots

Is anyone here planning to watch the episodes over the time they're supposed to occur? I'm thinking of watching part 1 tomorrow due to it being the date on the calendar onscreen, and part 2 the next day.

I don't know the episode, but unless that's some extremely official time piece controlled by the government or something, it could just be someone like me. I live in the US, and several of the temp gauges in the house are celcius, including the one I keep at my desk and my in room A/C (set at 25 atm).

I also used to keep my car on km/h instead of mph just for fun and confusing anyone who rode with me why I was going 80 on local roads or 130 on the highway.

Far more likely that whoever installed the clock just forgot to change the units.

This is what "Past Tense" was really warning us about.

That's crap. Kelvin is the only true metric temperature measurement.

Turns out it was just someone who didn’t know how to change the setting.

I think our whole timeline spans from some Romulan plot about something involving handing a compilation of Federation history to some weird guy... What was his name? Gene Roddenberry?

Star Trek really was overly optimistic.

Star Trek future now!

Hate to point this out, but the fact there is a "C" on the sign kinda shows that no America did not adopt the metric system. If the US did there would be no reason to have "F" or "C" by the degrees as they are the last hold out.

This is the most unrealistic thing about the episode.

Thank God! As a non United-stasian, I believe this will make things better. The imperial system looks broken as hell to me, if you see a chart comparing both, you will see what I mean.
/not joking, not in the mood of hearing sacarsm.

15c better be the temp inside the building, because it sure as shit is hotter anywhere else.

Maybe they were attending number 15 ^o C at that processing center.

Is this real? I can't tell. /g