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by NetMonkey 3161 days ago
I know many like me, who also just prefers the application language to be in English. From decades of using English I have no idea what many terms are in my native language, native terms are much harder to google, and many applications are also poorly translated. But that doesn't mean I want everything in English, especially not date/time formats.
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Language and locale (how you want your date or numbers formatted) are two different things. You can set them separately.
I can set them, all right. Somebody else then needs to read them, though...and has to take care not to assume that LANG===LC_TIME===LC_DATE. Sadly, I do not see that happening; in most cases, the apps are picking one locale setting, seemingly at random, and using it for all the other locale settings.