[time-nuts] Measurements

[steve gunsel]

At least an acre is acre throughout the US (I think).  The real 
problem was in olden France where virtually all measurements varied 
from village to village. So a bushel of wheat in one locality 
differed from a bushel elsewhere. Same with all of the other units. 
Made for nasty trade issues once they expanded beyond dealing with 
the immediate neighbors. They HAD to adopt common measurement system 
of some kind, and they sure weren't going to use anything that the 
English did!