Worse, there are clearly conflicting sources of truth involved.
Setting locale to `en_SOMEEUROPEANCOUNTRY` will make some programs use ISO 8601 dates everywhere, but other programs use all sorts of random formats. Switching between countries changes what different subsets of programs do.
Throwback to when Google maps randomly chose to use km/h configured in android settings and "mph (auto)" from google account setting at once on the same screen in the app.
I found that setting language to UK instead of US avoids a lot of the goofiness like YY/DD/MM and 12h time. Setting the language to my native tongue instead of English just doesn’t work for all the industrial terms.
Setting locale to `en_SOMEEUROPEANCOUNTRY` will make some programs use ISO 8601 dates everywhere, but other programs use all sorts of random formats. Switching between countries changes what different subsets of programs do.