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Very nice, although default of Fahrenheit, really? The date format is ISO rather than US by default. Maybe a master switch [US|Countries in the 21st Century] 8-

Very nice, although default of Fahrenheit, really? The date format is ISO rather than US by default. Maybe a master switch [US|Countries in the 21st Century] 8-)

sidarape 10y ago
You can see the available locales in the setting panel.
patatino 10y ago
My default was celsius. Firefox, language de
- wazari972 10y ago
  Connected from France, Firefox in english, default was °F
  - oliv__ 10y ago
    Same here.
  - GFischer 10y ago
    Chrome in English, from Uruguay, default was ºF
  - GrantSolar 10y ago
    Is that localisation EN-US or EN-GB?
    - lorenzhs 10y ago
      It's °C for me with EN-GB
      - RandyRanderson 10y ago
        deg F, windows: en-ca chrome: EN-US Physically in Canada
- sambe 10y ago
  Also Celsius for me, seems likely to be region/locale based (as it should be, I'd say).
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    Call me weird, but I hate when a program or service uses regions or locales to determine stuff like temperatures or languages. First of all, it often does it wrong - especially when using geographical location, which is one of the dumbest idea I've seen in computing. GPS fails when people are traveling (just because I'm in Germany right now, doesn't mean I want to see websites in German, etc.). GeoIP fails for various reasons, including VPNs and weird ISP shenanigans. Second of all, as a person fluent in English, I especially don't want to see a translation of your originally English site. Most software and website translations suck hard. My most common gripe: using the same word in translated language for things named by different words in original, or vice versa.
    - pmoriarty 10y ago
      To generalize this: when programs try to be clever, they often wind up being stupid. I'd personally prefer that programs just acknowledge they're stupid and give me, the user, more control.
- lucideer 10y ago
  Connected from Ireland, Firefox in English, default was °F Possibly the locale detection is limited/imperfect, with °F as a fallback.
  - sidarape 10y ago
    You can see the available locales in the setting panel.
  - hobarrera 10y ago
    Using ºF is an odd fallback, considering it's just one country that uses it (just make sure detection works ok for it and you're done).
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lucideer 10y ago
If ISO dates is a measure for being in the 21st century, it should probably really be defaulting to Kelvin, no? 8-)
- ska 10y ago
  No. Kelvin was never intended for this sort of use. ISO dates were.
tomw2005 10y ago
Connected from UK with Chrome, language DE. Celsisus was default.
GrantSolar 10y ago
On the topic of localisation, I really love how it has the local names for places (Roma, Bruxelles, etc.)
hobarrera 10y ago
Firefox en english (the default, not en_GB), Celsius by default. (geographically in Argentina).

Very nice, although default of Fahrenheit, really? The date format is ISO rather than US by default. Maybe a master switch [US|Countries in the 21st Century] 8-)

sidarape 10y ago

You can see the available locales in the setting panel.

patatino 10y ago

My default was celsius. Firefox, language de

wazari972 10y ago
Connected from France, Firefox in english, default was °F
- oliv__ 10y ago
  Same here.
- GFischer 10y ago
  Chrome in English, from Uruguay, default was ºF
- GrantSolar 10y ago
  Is that localisation EN-US or EN-GB?
  - lorenzhs 10y ago
    It's °C for me with EN-GB
    - RandyRanderson 10y ago
      deg F, windows: en-ca chrome: EN-US Physically in Canada
sambe 10y ago
Also Celsius for me, seems likely to be region/locale based (as it should be, I'd say).
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  Call me weird, but I hate when a program or service uses regions or locales to determine stuff like temperatures or languages. First of all, it often does it wrong - especially when using geographical location, which is one of the dumbest idea I've seen in computing. GPS fails when people are traveling (just because I'm in Germany right now, doesn't mean I want to see websites in German, etc.). GeoIP fails for various reasons, including VPNs and weird ISP shenanigans. Second of all, as a person fluent in English, I especially don't want to see a translation of your originally English site. Most software and website translations suck hard. My most common gripe: using the same word in translated language for things named by different words in original, or vice versa.
  - pmoriarty 10y ago
    To generalize this: when programs try to be clever, they often wind up being stupid. I'd personally prefer that programs just acknowledge they're stupid and give me, the user, more control.
lucideer 10y ago
Connected from Ireland, Firefox in English, default was °F Possibly the locale detection is limited/imperfect, with °F as a fallback.
- sidarape 10y ago
  You can see the available locales in the setting panel.
- hobarrera 10y ago
  Using ºF is an odd fallback, considering it's just one country that uses it (just make sure detection works ok for it and you're done).

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lucideer 10y ago

If ISO dates is a measure for being in the 21st century, it should probably really be defaulting to Kelvin, no? 8-)

ska 10y ago
No. Kelvin was never intended for this sort of use. ISO dates were.

tomw2005 10y ago

Connected from UK with Chrome, language DE. Celsisus was default.

GrantSolar 10y ago

On the topic of localisation, I really love how it has the local names for places (Roma, Bruxelles, etc.)

hobarrera 10y ago

Firefox en english (the default, not en_GB), Celsius by default. (geographically in Argentina).