[timwilky]

You damn colonials inventing your own units of measure!
Many years ago I worked for a truck manufacturer and had to perform "Type Approval" testing.


One of these being rollover testing of fuel tanks, where we would need to brim it with diesel, roll the tank and measure the fuel loss over time. yes boring and I used to give it juniors, but still had to write the report.


It was a time when we would submit both SI and imperial units. No problem I had a new fancy calculator with built in conversions. Imagine my surprise when my report was rejected.


Doh, the fancy calculator built by those clever Japanese chaps with the Litre<->Gallon functions only went and used those dodgy US gallons and not a proper Imperial one. Back to looking up the conversion factor in my book of useless information and using the fancy calculator as a calculator.