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Probably because the OP is from one of the many parts of the world where “,” is the decimal point and “.” is the thousands separator.

That's how most of Europe do decimal places, using commas instead of full stops.

I get it and it's probably done out of habit but in English it's just weird. AFAIK no English speaking majority area does it either.

Yes, he's from Denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

Well Oslo is not in Denmark, but in Norway (a different country).

I (from Denmark) find it "disturbing" to see `.´ as the decimal point, AM/PM for time, as well as writing the DAY before the MONTH (MM/DD-YYYY).

https://m.xkcd.com/927/

https://www.ctrl.blog/about/ "Ctrl blog (“Control blog”) is the developer-focused blog of Daniel Aleksandersen based in Oslo, Norway."

Let’s compromise: 1-253/234 for the thousands separator and the decimal. And YY.DD,MM for the date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator (i.e. not everyone uses a period)

It’s the SI and ISO standard decimal separator. It’s also the world’s most commonly used decimal separator. (Everywhere but the US uses space as the thousand separator.)