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On Windows one can change how a date is rendered, without changing the locale. I need to look up if this is propagated to browsers.

Also, I hate DOB selectors which don't allow me to manually enter the date, and default to today, and don't have a year << arrow. Only month.

Now I need to click at least (age - 1) * 12 on the < arrow.

In general, I wish more websites would use native date / number / dropdown pickers.

Workday is the worst offender here.

Try clicking the year number and the month name. Those often show a pop up with less clicking required to get to where you want.

But those are unintuitive and still more time consuming than a masked numeric XXXX-XX-XX with a dropdown calendar. Which is what Windows provides anyways.

Is that analogous to setting LC_TIME, per application or temporary?

> On Windows one can change how a date is rendered

I think that’s true on all OSes

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