The rest of the world is so smart

North America really needs to get with the world program. Witness:

Paper Sizes:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html

Date and Time:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

and of course the Metric System:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/metric-system-faq.txt