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by masklinn 4707 days ago
> You would handle that by looking at looking at a user's location settings and choosing the appropriate one.

Great, now if I try to book a flight from Spain to Hungary while being in the US for some reason, I'm pretty much guaranteed to get the one date format which makes no sense whatsoever.
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calbear81 4707 days ago
If you were in the US, we would use US conventions unless you had specified that you picked a different localized site (let's say the .es site) in which case we would switch to the conventions based on localization settings.
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masklinn 4707 days ago
> If you were in the US, we would use US conventions

Which is precisely the problem I'm pointing out.

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