 Examples of efforts to have local intercity or national standards for measurements include the Scottish law of 1641, and the British standard imperial system of 1824, which is still commonly used in the United Kingdom.Imperial China had at one time successfully standardised units for volume throughout its territory, but by 1936 official investigations uncovered 53 values for the "chi" varying from 200 millimetres to 1250 millimetres; 32 values of the "cheng", between 500 millilitres and 8 litres; and 36 different "tsin" ranging from 300 grams to 2500 grams.Revolutionary France was to produce what evolved into the definitive "International System of Units", which has come to be used by most of the world today.