FutureShop- All Stores Closed Immediately

[ookpik]

I actually favour YYYY-MM-DD, as it sorts logically.

Me too. But that's even more esoteric for most people. So is miltary time, e.g. 21:00 rather than 9pm.

as for the shot Ookpik took at Imperial measurements

What shot was that? For the record I'm a fan of metric and use it as much as possible. But since I grew up with Imperial I still sometimes think in those measurements. Interestingly I think of my height in metric but my weight in imperial. Yet when doing wood work and related stuff I think/estimate in imperial but measure in metric. I'll estimate the length of a piece of wood as say 2 feet but use the metric scale on my tape measure to measure the length precisely before cutting.

If we still measured gas in gallons instead of litres we would know we are getting hosed there too (hosed is a Canadian term).

 
To add to the confusion don't forget that our US cousins use a different size of gallon to our old imperial one. The price of a gallon of gas in the US will always be cheaper than in Canada because their gallons are smaller than ours.

But I agree this is a huge digression from Future Shop.