Why does my iPad think I'm in the UK?

[wyneken]

My iPad seems to feel that I am British. I admit to being an anglophile, but this is puzzling:

• When I do a Google search, Safari uses the google.co.uk server by default.
• All the iWork templates are formatted for A4 paper.
• Basic units of measurement (usually) appear in metric form -- cm instead of inches, km/hour instead of miles/hour, etc -- unless I manually change them.

This isn't a huge problem, but I can't figure out what is causing it, or how to persuade the software that I really am in the US. (It's got my time zone right, at least.)

 

[skubish]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16)

Go to Settings>General>International>region format.
Make sure it is set to United States.

 

[steviem]

Simple.

Because it's St. George's Day...

Although we don't use km/h (strangely) in the UK. We use mph.

 

[wyneken]

Go to Settings>General>International>region format.
Make sure it is set to United States.

That did the trick! Thank you.

I put this down to reading too much John Le Carré. The first book I added to iBooks was "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." I wonder if this means I have to stop drinking tea.