There were numerous reasons this was proposed, discussed, and selected as the default for Kubuntu 2026.04:
1. It is universally understood and unambiguous. With many people working across borders, the various date format are an endless source of errors and confusion. US and CA: 5/4/2026 Most of EU: 4/5/2026 ISO: 2026-05-04 2. Some locales like Bengali use different glyphs that do not match the Arabic numerals of the digital clock. Use of an ISO date also uses Arabic numerals like the clock, so it always matched and fits. 3. Apparently the KDE default for some locales use an incorrect or informal date instead of the actual standard. For example, in Germany, according to DIN 5008 (standards for office communication and administrative work in Germany) ISO8601 is the official date format and the dd.mm.yyyy format is merely accepted as long as it doesn't cause any misunderstandings. (From 1996--2001 it even was the only allowed format, but then they re-allowed dd.mm.yyyy) This was a conscious and consider design decision that presents well in all languages in an unambiguous format that almost all users understand and use commonly. Notice the short date on this bug report is "2026-04-18," the German office standard. There's a reason for that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kubuntu-settings in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2148738 Title: Date format in Digital Clock applet is set to ISO which doesn't respect the date format of the locale To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-settings/+bug/2148738/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
