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by mykowebhn 636 days ago
Commas are used for the decimal point instead of the period character in many countries, including many European countries.
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I'm from one of those European countries and still also read it as it taking over a year to boot...
We do, but most of software engineers out there hate it and use the dot, for obvious reasons (CSV in particular).

Having said that, I like our Swiss decimal group delimiter: 1'000'000.