[drwoland]

As a programmer working in the UK I've never been asked to rewrite something into British English. I have been instructed to convert some old codebase to American spellings to "avoid confusion". Probably about 6 times in 20 years of professional programming and usually by some product manager based in San José following an acquisition. This is why the library exists I expect.

[drwoland]

To be clear, I don't think the library would actually be used to accomplish this task. Rather I suspect a tounge in cheek reaction to years of tedious spelling adjustment disguised as urgent feature requests.

[rikroots]

I've been dodging requests to "fix" British date formats in published articles to meet US reader expectations for a while now ...

[GJim]

Don't get me started on US calendars that have the weeks beginning on Sunday instead of Monday!

[Benanov]

YYYY-MM-DD should aggravate everyone equally, switch to that