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Re:Chrome gets date and time pickers by bnr on Friday November 16, 2012 @05:45PM (#4796263)
> I'd love to have a little more control over this. Perhaps adding: > lang="fr"

No, please, don't! Leave the users in control, developers will just screw this up with country=language=locale logic.

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Re:Chrome gets date and time pickers by ansgri on Friday November 16, 2012 @11:54PM (#4797251)
Then the browser localizes for you what it can and you'll get a very ugly-looking page that is almost all in e.g. French and dates in English. Seen that with some CMS which auto-localize their UI but not content, obviously.
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