> However, US has godawful standards for everything: dates, measurement units, paper sizes.
Isn't the choice of language and date and unit formats normally independent.
Isn't the choice of language and date and unit formats normally independent.
> Isn't the choice of language and date and unit formats normally independent.
You would hope so but, no. Quite a bit software tie the language setting to Locale setting. If you are lucky, they will provide an "English (UK)" option (which still uses miles or FFS WTF is a stone!).
On Windows you can kinda select the units easily. On Linux let me introduce you to the journey to LC_ environment variables: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/locale-environment-variables . This doesn't mean the websites or the apps will obey them. Quite a few of them don't and just use LANGUAGE, LANG or LC_TYPE as their setting.
My company switched to Notion this year (I still miss Confluence). It was hell until last month since they only had "English (US)" and used M/D/Y everywhere with no option to change!
An english imperial measurement. Measurements made based on actual stone rock and were mainly use as weighing agricultural items such as animal meat and potatoes. We also used tons and pounds before we incorporated the metric system of Europe.
It's actually a pretty good weight for measuring humans (14lb). Your weight in pounds varies from day to day but your weight in (half-)stones is much more stable.
I propose 614 stones to the rock, 131 pebbles to the stone, and 14707 grains to the pebble. Of course.
It's just English (I don't know when it's US and when it's UK, it's UK for Poland), but with the date / temperature / currency / unit preferences of whatever locale you actually live in.
Maybe there are some exceptions if we speak globally, hence limiting myself to europe. But I assume it is the same deal.