http://awitness.org/software/index.html
Here is a url for free conversion software you can use easily. It has multiple conversions available (distance, temperature, etc)
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From: Michael Pfeiffer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 11:22 AM
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Subject: Re: custom versus statute
I leanred about this a few months back but have not had time to play with
it very much yet.
Go to the GOOGLE Search page.
In the box, type in "38 feet in meters" and see what you get.
:-)
Smoke (Michael A.) Pfeiffer, RPA
Ozark-St. Francis National Forests
605 West Main Street
Russellville, Arkansas 72801
(479) 968-2354 Ext. 233
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Paul: The term "U.S. Customary" is the Term by which U.S. Weights and
Measures are refered to in our "Legalese". I have seen it both capitalized
and not in BOTH legal and regulatory documents. Take your pick. There are
two systems of measurement recognized by U.S. Law. For Example, check out:
http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/230/235/h130-03/04_III_Weightlaw.pdf
as adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures. page 22.
The International System of Units (SI)[ NOTE 2, see page 22] and the
system of weights and measures in customary use in the United States are
jointly recognized, and either one or both of these systems shall be used
for all commercial pur-poses in the State. The defini-tions of basic
units of weight and meas-ure, the tables of weight and measure, and weights
and measures equivalents as pub-lished by the National Institute of
Standards and Technology are recognized and shall govern weighing and
meas-uring equipment and transactions in the State.
(Amended 1993)
NOTE 2: The "International System of Units" means the modernized metric
system as established in 1960 by the General Conference on Weights and
Measures and interpreted or modified for the United States by the Secretary
of Commerce. [See Metric Conversion Act of 1975 (Public Law 94-168, § 3(1)
and § 4(4), and NIST Special Publication 814 - Metric System of
Measurement; Interpretation of the International System of Units for the
United States, or the Federal Register of December 20, 1990, (FR
90-21913).] (Added 1993)
This and other stuff is there in the Weights and Measures Division of the
National Institute of Standards and Technology.
I have been complusive enough for this morning. TTFN
Smoke.
Smoke (Michael A.) Pfeiffer, RPA
Ozark-St. Francis National Forests
605 West Main Street
Russellville, Arkansas 72801
(479) 968-2354 Ext. 233
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paul courtney
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Sorry to be a pedantic historian here I have to deal with medieval
customary mesures on a reguar basis and occasionally with areas where
measurements could be French, Flemish, Spanish or Austrian but surely US
measurements are not customary any more than Imperial but laid down in law.
The point with customary meausrements is they they were by the custom of
the town, region, manor, ethnic group etc. not by statute.
paul courtney
UK