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Hm, I think we strongly disagree here.

I am bilingual myself, and I strongly prefer each context to be self-consistent. When reading English text I find Norwegian date formatting confusing, and vice versa. I routinely have open tabs in different languages.

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Which is OK (so the user should have a choice :) ). Just my personal experience, but seeing dates as "06/07/20XX" always makes me do a double check (is this next week or in a month?) unless I know that I have everything configured my way, which may be different from the way of site designer.

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