>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.

…?

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.