I'm waiting for the day when I can additionally configure "use ISO8601/RfC3339 timestamps"

Not only on GitLab, but everywhere. In any application. On any website. It's a pain in the ass on Linux.

>Not only on GitLab, but everywhere. In any application. On any website. It's a pain in the ass on Linux.

C.UTF-8, but you are correct. Windows solved this years ago.

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I must be misunderstanding you.

I can't get ISO-8601 dates to work properly in Excel unless I set my Windows to Australia locale, or make my own parser or use a third-party library.

Sure, I can format a field^Wcell with a custom format string, but Excel still won't believe me when I type/paste/import ISO-8601 dates. Unless I set 'Australia' systemwide.

And no, simply adding English (Australia) as one of the additional system languages, or keyboard layouts (and switching to that layout), or number+date+currency formats doesn't work.

Oh, works here. I set locale format to German (Germany) or (Austria) while using Windows with English language. All date/time/currency formats are sane.

But you could also customize the region settings in "Additional settings...".

Good to know there are other countries with sane defaults. (-:

God yes. That should be just the locale. I have it set up right because `date` shows it correctly but nothing else respects it. Not Dolphin, not Thunderbird, not git.

For some insane (=AM/PM) reason the language is tied to time preference.

Worse, there are clearly conflicting sources of truth involved.

Setting locale to `en_SOMEEUROPEANCOUNTRY` will make some programs use ISO 8601 dates everywhere, but other programs use all sorts of random formats. Switching between countries changes what different subsets of programs do.

Throwback to when Google maps randomly chose to use km/h configured in android settings and "mph (auto)" from google account setting at once on the same screen in the app.

I found that setting language to UK instead of US avoids a lot of the goofiness like YY/DD/MM and 12h time. Setting the language to my native tongue instead of English just doesn’t work for all the industrial terms.

Yes, but Gitlab doesn't have that.

Thank you for supporting this. Anyone know if GitHub has a similar option?

Why isn't this the default?

Instead of providing a useful meaningful date, you:

- obscure information

- spent additional devtime creating a time conversion

- spent additional time implementing an otherwise useless setting for this

Why?!