The Metric system was introduced and replaced the old measurement units.
This section opened in 1992 and built (like all of its sections) to Interstate Highway standards (containing no traffic signals, crossroads, or businesses), was the first highway on the East Coast to be marked with metric measurements.
New Zealand racing differs from North American racing in that metric distances are used, generally above the equivalent of one mile and horses are classed by how many wins they have.
The book contains no geographical references or individual names, but does use non-metric measurements.
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This length of middle-distance race, 1760 yards, (1609.344 metres), is very common in countries that do not use the metric system, and is still often referred to as the "Blue Riband" of the track.
The imposition of the metric system led to demonstrations in the northeast in 1874 with metric weights and measures destroyed by peasants, and land and tax records burned.
The metric system of measure was first given a legal basis in 1795 by the French Revolutionary government.
In the 1980s, momentum to fully convert to the metric system stalled when the government of Brian Mulroney was elected.
In 1875 the Convention of the metre was signed and control of the metric system passed from France to a trio of inter-government organisations headed by the Conférence générale des poids et mesures (CGPM) and based in Sèvres, France.
In the film Pulp Fiction it is true that because of the metric system in France, this sandwich was called Royale with cheese.
Traffic was commanded to drive on the right by painting arrows on the road indicating the direction of traffic and changing the location of street and traffic signs to Spanish and metric system.