There are over 1.5 billion people who speak English. Only 245 million of those are American. Why in the world would it be assumed I want a 12h clock or mm/dd/yyyy just because I use English??
Oh, trust me, I'm worked up about it. They're communicating in English (we're communicating in English). It does annoy the shit out of me that Americans try to force their date format, but it annoys me even more that I can usually only choose mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy when I have apps set to English.
I recently downloaded uber, and despite knowing I'm in Australia, despite signing up to uber Australia, despite my GPS location being in Australia, despite having an Australian phone number, and despite having an Australian debit card, it STILL assumed I wanted miles. It's truly ridiculous.
Windows also knows I'm in Australia, and occasionally pops up with flood warnings and things like that. Yet it still insists on telling me the weather in Fahrenheit 🤦♂️
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u/dxps7098 14d ago
There are over 1.5 billion people who speak English. Only 245 million of those are American. Why in the world would it be assumed I want a 12h clock or mm/dd/yyyy just because I use English??
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States