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I prefer the metric system but have had to learn imperial due to being in the US. The only thing that bothers me is the date format. Prefer month/date/year (or y/m/d). Western calendars are organized by year/month/date. For me, writing 4/24 gives more information up front (time of year) than 24/4 (time of month).
IMO, the only logical part of the American date system is that it's the same way you would say it (July 1st 2023).
Since English is my second language, though, and in French you would say 1er Juillet 2023, it still fucks me up anytime a date is like 10/10/2023.
I mean ppl say 4th of July even for the independence of united states, not very independent of the metric system. XD
Well the date format isn't 'metric'. It's actually a little worse since it's consistently bad, vs the US format which is inconsistently bad.
Year.Month.Day also just makes it so you can automatically sort files on a disk by name and get them in chronological order.
But yeah really wish we would move over to metric in the US regardless. Especially for measurement..... Heck we technically are using it too but just for "Trade and Commerce"