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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
The Paris Meridian was abandoned in favor of the Greenwich Meridian at the Washington International Conference of 1884. I imagine the French weren't very happy about this, so in the discussions before the vote the British agreed to adopt the metric system in exchange. Sounds like a fool's bargain to me  |
I think going metric is a small price to pay for not being on PMT(*) half the year...
(* of course, this pun only really works in English)