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Why does my profile write American dates when I set the language to en-GB?

usmanm736 · 1 day ago
I set the Language override to en-GB and the timezone to Europe/London, but sites show dates as 1/15/2026 and times as 1:05:00 PM. Is that a giveaway, and is it fixable?

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Parallel Staff · 1 day ago
That was a real bug, fixed in v0.0.63 — update if you're on something older.

The language reached Accept-Language and navigator.languages, but the browser's own locale was never set, so Intl stayed on the machine's locale and every date a page formatted came out American. A British browser writing 1/15/2026 is a contradiction any page produces without trying — no fingerprinting script needed.

The fix passes your profile's language to the browser as its UI locale. The same profile now reports en-GB, 15/01/2026, 13:05:00.

To check any profile, open the console and run:

[navigator.language, Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().locale, new Date().toLocaleDateString()]

The first two should match, and the third should look the way the first implies.

More detail: https://parallel-browser.com/learn/language-locale-mismatch

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