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It wouldn’t be colonial, though. Britain didn’t start its switch to the metric system until 1965. The colonists wouldn’t have been using metric, seeing as they came from Britain.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/weather/2023/02/20/the-change-to-celsius-in-u-s--remains-stalled--here-s-why