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Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us?

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RobG wrote:
^^^^
Your real name belongs there.

> On 7/04/2017 09:34, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> writes:
>>> Also, whether this statement is true for other browsers where
>>> the default language is other than English?
>>
>>   I believe that in ECMAScript it returns an
>>   implementation-dependent string value that represents the
>>   date as a date and time in the current time zone using
>>   »a convenient, human-readable form«.
> 
> Yes, per ECMA-262, but question is about MDN, not ECMA-262.

You are proceeding from a false assumption.  MDN is _not_ a documentation 
“primarily for Mozilla browsers”.

However, if I install iceweasel-l10n-de=1:38.8.0esr-1~deb8u1, and execute
“LC_ALL=de_CH.UTF-8 iceweasel”, although the GUI now is in German,

  (new Date()).toString()

still is in English ("Sat Apr 08 2017 20:…:… GMT+0200 (CEST)").

  (new Date()).toLocaleString()

and

  (new Date()).toLocaleString("de")

are not ("8.4.2017 20:…:…").

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Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2017-04-06 16:17 -0700
  Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-04-07 13:35 +0200
  Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2017-04-08 08:47 +1000
    Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-04-08 20:13 +0200
      Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-04-09 11:58 +0100
        Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-04-09 15:54 +0200
          Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2017-04-09 16:02 +0200
          Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-04-09 16:51 +0100
            Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-04-09 18:09 +0200
              Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-04-10 10:34 +0100
                Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-04-11 06:26 +0200
                Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-04-11 18:38 +0100
      Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2017-04-14 15:57 +1000
      Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2017-04-14 16:45 +1000
  Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? Dr J R Stockton <reply1700@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2017-04-10 21:16 +0100
    Re: Is Date.prototoype.toString always en-us? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-04-10 19:15 -0700

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