Those of you living in the more enlightened parts of the world where we have no truck with socialist abstractions like centimeters and kilograms should remember that today is the day we update to the US Summer Weights and Measures.

Be sure to update your scales, tape measures, and cooking implements to Summer Weights and Measures values until November 3.
17 ounces to the pound
9 ounces to the cup
13 inches to the foot.

Of course, all other measures stay the same, so while there are still 63,360 inches to the mile, during the summer there are 4873.8461 feet to the mile, as God intended.

Though I have posted this before, for any who missed it, this documentary explains how our glorious system in the land of the free came to be:
Washington's Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk

Your post sort of a combination jab at the US measuring system and daylight savings time, right?

The real history of how we got to our measuring mess is interesting, but we are holding on to it out of pure stubbornness imo.  As I mentioned last time we talked about it, my kids are even less metric literate than my generation.  We should just drop DST all together, it actually kills people.

Just whimsy really.

I was just changing the clocks and making pancakes and the idea of adjusting the measuring cups  popped into my head.

Back in the 16th century they simply adjusted things that needed adjusting. So the 5am sermon moved to 6am then 7am and the 5pm sermon moved to 4pm. There was a real reason for this in an early modern city (no street lights): get people home before it got dark.

Also in the 16th century, weights and measures were local. If you walked 20km to another town, the size of a bushel might be different. Each town would have something (in Geneva a big stone bowl) that set the exact size of a "coupe" of wheat. In Jussy, a 10-minute drive today, they had a different stone bowl and they just knew that roughly 13 coupes de Geneve was 14 coupes de Jussy or something like that.

So actually even the standardization of the US system is a major achievement.