Q. How can I show my country's specific date formats, first day of week, etc.?
A. If you are not using Internet Explorer or Firefox you'll have to switch to using either of those and check the following settings:
In Firefox:
Tools - Options - Content - Languages.
In IE:
Internet Options - General - Appearance - Languages.
You should select your language from the drop-down list of languages and move it to the very top of the language list using the "Move up" button. Then click "OK" twice to save changes.
Simply showing (en) for English or (fr) for French is not enough, you must choose a standard language from the list such as English (United Kingdom) [en-GB], for example.
For example, there are different varieties of English language, e.g. English (Australia) [en-AU], English (United Kingdom) [en-GB], etc. This extra region -XX is what designates date formats, first day of week, etc.
Both [en-AU] and [en-GB] have the dd/mm/yyyy date format and week starts in Monday, while English (United States) [en-US] has mm/dd/yyyy date format and Sunday as a week starting day.
After changing a language just refresh a page to see the results.
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