Conversion Process
The metric system was officially introduced in France in December 1799. In the 19th century, the metric system was adopted by almost all European countries: Portugal (1814), Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (1820), Switzerland (1835), Spain (1850s), Italy (1861), Germany (1870), legally from 1 January 1872, Austria (1876, but the law was adopted in 1871). Thailand did not formally adopt the metric system until 1923, but the Royal Thai Survey Department used it for cadastral survey as early as 1896. Denmark adopted the metric system in 1907.
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