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		account42 on March 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why does Google use location for language rather t... I just use en_DK which (while not perfectly named) is exactly there to solve this.

SAI_Peregrinus on March 14, 2022 [–]

That doesn't have `_` as the thousands separator. It uses ISO 8601 for date/times instead of RFC 3339 (so "2022-03-14T15:06:03 EDT" instead of "2022-03-14 15:06:03-04:00"), etc.

I just happen to want slightly different choices than it allows.

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