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    Measures weren’t standard before the french revolution, so picking something and getting buy-in was easy. Time keeping was well established, and the French moved to a metric calendar, and proposals for metric time were made, but all were eventually rejected.

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        It will happen because there is so much traction on metric, but it will be slow and both systems will be marked for a long time.