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Originally Posted by RegUser
As far as I know, the Brits and US were pissed off because the French manged to push the idea of metric as standard international. The brits on th eother hand snubbed French by clinching GMT to set in Greenwich and not in Paris. As a result the UK and US decided to stay put
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But the UK is now completely metric were as the US is'nt and has no intentions of doing so.