https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340982

--- Comment #257 from brenb...@brenbarn.net ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #253)
> Experience also shows that even
> if we did something super in-your-face and added a giant banner in the
> Region & Language KCM that said:
> 
> "ALERT! Changing this only affects KDE apps! It will not affect the way
> dates are expressed in any non-KDE app such as Thunderbird, Firefox, Chrome,
> LibreOffice, and Blender"
> 
> ...then I can 100% guarantee you that we would *still* get bug reports from
> confused users complaining that Thunderbird, Firefox, Chrome, LibreOffice,
> and Blender don't respect their date display preferences. And we would have
> to explain the underlying reason over and over again.

To put it bluntly, so what?  Just create a FAQ about it and close those bug
reports as invalid.  The fact that people will ask why it doesn't work in all
cases doesn't seem like a good reason to not fix it in some cases.

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