Change to global calendar standard (outside US that is): ISO 8601

William Naversten

• December 08, 2024 11:54

Global standard for calendars is to start with a Monday. For cultural/Christian reasons, Americans refuse to adhere to what the rest of the world use as global standard https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html 

Feel free to use whatever measurements you want (feet, bananas, football fields) in the US. But for the rest of us not having weeks starting on a Monday is nothing but just really odd and opens up for confusion and mistakes when you have two different calendar views in different calendars open. It feels a bit "ok - this is a US only perspective - fine - then we know this product is not for the rest of us."

The same goes for dates. YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss is the only internationally recognized standard. Anything else is a local deviation (including am/pm for anyone having cognitive issues with the 24 hours clock format).

So please make sure that this can be set in the settings. Anyone wanting to use ancient systems may do so - but for anyone in an international environment, ISO 8601 is the accepted format.

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  Mike

  • December 08, 2024 12:37

  Upvote. 
  Would be great to have a setting, allows picking preferred start of the week.

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