alt Hacker NewsI absolutely hate that they've reduced it to a single "regional settings". Just because I don't want Norwegian text everywhere does not mean I want dates and time to be displayed in some weird way. However I also utterly despise the Norwegian official way of writing decimal numbers with , rather than . as the decimal separator.
We've had fine-grained control over this for ages, apps can handle it fine, just let us get it the way we want it.
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That reminds me of the spotlight bar on a Mac that could also do maths, except that if you used . instead of the regionally correct decimal separator ",", it would ignore it, so e.g. 123.7 + 4.50 became 1687.
This is configurable in Windows. Your location, keyboard(s), display language, and date/numeric formats are all separate settings.
You can even use emoji as date separators if you please.
"English (Ireland)" seems to be the closest thing to a sane locale out of the box (could have wished for ISO-8601 dates, but I guess you can't have everything).