regional settings

Area-specific device configuration

Regional settings are software configuration options that adapt a computer or application to local conventions.

These typically include date and time formats, currency symbols, number separators, measurement units, and language preferences.

Check your regional settings if dates are displaying in the wrong format.

Also called locale settings.

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