How about using a 24hr clock?

[Favis]

We are of course, in the same language family, just as the mainland Scandinavian languages are mutually intelligible.

I don't think that is the same.
If you know british english it's easy to understand american. But you know swedish it's not easy to understand danish.

[IgorUnchained]

Nothing makes me chuckle more than when a nation of 70 million tells a nation of 300 million that they arent speaking the language, telling time, or measuring things the right way.

If 300 million people say that a boot is worn on the foot and 70 million people say it is a storage receptacle on a car, do you really think the 70 million should make the call?

Ever met someone who insists that a swastika is just an ancient sun symbol taken over by the Nazis? Well, send them through Ghost Town in Venice CA with a swastika shirt and see if the majority agrees with his semantics. Language evolves and the English Empire is long dead.....time to get with the times.

[Favis]

Nothing makes me chuckle more than when a nation of 70 million tells a nation of 300 million that they arent speaking the language, telling time, or measuring things the right way.

I though most american was viewing there language as american english.
At least that the impression I got from software from the US.

[Razcar]

Nothing makes me chuckle more than when a nation of 70 million tells a nation of 300 million that they arent speaking the language, telling time, or measuring things the right way.

If 300 million people say that a boot is worn on the foot and 70 million people say it is a storage receptacle on a car, do you really think the 70 million should make the call?

Ever met someone who insists that a swastika is just an ancient sun symbol taken over by the Nazis? Well, send them through Ghost Town in Venice CA with a swastika shirt and see if the majority agrees with his semantics. Language evolves and the English Empire is long dead.....time to get with the times.

Well, a world consisting of about 6 400 million people in metric-using nations is chuckling right back at you. The population of the US that you mention is only approximately 2.2 tiny percent of the world's... a world where the metric system is very much dominant. Fortunately for themselves, US citizens are blessed to live in a country which can choose to use whatever system it wants to, regardless how "smart" or "dumb" it would happen to be.