Comment by drwoland

2 days ago

As a programmer working in the UK I've never been asked to rewrite something into British English. I have been instructed to convert some old codebase to American spellings to "avoid confusion". Probably about 6 times in 20 years of professional programming and usually by some product manager based in San José following an acquisition. This is why the library exists I expect.

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drwoland  2 days ago

To be clear, I don't think the library would actually be used to accomplish this task. Rather I suspect a tounge in cheek reaction to years of tedious spelling adjustment disguised as urgent feature requests.

rikroots  2 days ago

I've been dodging requests to "fix" British date formats in published articles to meet US reader expectations for a while now ...

  • GJim  1 day ago

    Don't get me started on US calendars that have the weeks beginning on Sunday instead of Monday!