how to change title's displayed running time from alternate running time to original, regular, default running time

@Col_Needham Thank you for your reply.  The display is broken. My "Title display country/region" is unset (set to blank) and I am connecting from outside the USA, yet I'm seeing 1h 28m.  I changed it to "United Kingdom" and saw 1h 50m, but that's too parochial a setting for me, so I changed it to "Original" and it went back to displaying 1h 28.

Using a VPN to connect from UK, I set "Title display..." to UK again, which showed 1h 50m, and then I signed out.  Signed out and connecting from UK (via VPN), 1h 28m again.

I would appreciate it if you would sign and and check this yourself.

It seems that far from "everyone outside of the US" seeing 1h 50m, it's only people who are both (1) signed in and (2) are aware of the "Title display country/region" setting and have set it to something other than blank (default), "Original" or "United States".

It is particularly upsetting that setting it to "Original" is showing the reduced USA length even when connecting from the UK!

UPDATE: "reference view" shows the original 1h 50m running time.  Interestingly, it keeps showing 1h 50m even when I change content settings to United States, LOL.

Switching to "reference view" circumvents the problem on the normal view of the title page, but running time shown in lists is still broken for me.

@andylittle70​ If you set the “Title display country/region” on https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general to “Original” then this only controls the display of titles across the site, it does not control the display of local running times, ratings certificates or release dates (which will fall back to your detected geo-IP location and/or browser localisation settings). As stated in our reply above, there is currently no setting which will set the display of the other localisable fields to default/original/earliest.  We agree that such an option would be useful for some customers, however, we are still in the process of migrating the last remaining parts of the site from our old technology platform to the new one.  We can only consider global changes like this when we have a single modern platform on which such changes can be made, sorry. 

The title/reference page is one such old page which is still awaiting migration and it uses an entirely different localisation system.  Once migrated later this year, the localisation will behave the same as on the main /title/ pages. 

Hope this helps. 

@Peter_pbn​  Thanks for the bug report on the “language = English” setting; this was supposed to have been fixed.  This is a good example for us to share with the team. 

@Peter_pbn​ 

False. I'm in Denmark and while signed out I get 1h 50m.

Attempting to reproduce your result, I used a VPN to connect from Copenhagen, Denmark, and signed out: 1h 28m.  I deleted all cookies and reloaded the page: 1h 28m.

@Col_Needham 

Then I tried something that SHOULDN'T have worked: I changed my browser display language (menus, etc.) to "English (GB)", and *POOF* 1h 50m.  Apparently, IMDb is parsing the http "ACCEPT LANGUAGE" header and using my stated preference of reading the Queen's English as a reason to show me 1h 50m in Denmark.  That means that the reason it was showing me 1h 28m in Denmark was because my browser said I prefer reading American English.

I signed back in and am still seeing 1h 50m.

Signed in, connecting from US now, I see 1h 50m, so language preference trumps geolocation!

I'm sure the programmers think they're being very clever, and localized running times may make sense for movies still in theaters -- or theatres -- but not for films released over 50 years ago and now globally available in original form -- assuming you know the correct length to look for.

@Col_Needham Thanks for the help.  With your and @Peter_pbn 's assistance, I have found that the problem is the website using the presence of "en-US" in my "ACCEPT-LANGUAGE" request header as a reason to give me the shortened US running time even when connecting from Cambodia with my browser's language set to Khmer (since Firefox sends "km;en-US" (and "English (US)" is the one language that cannot be deleted from the language preference list)).  I don't think Khmer-speaking Cambodians connecting from Cambodia should be seeing the shortened US running time when there is nothing in the database to suggest that the US cut was ever released in Cambodia.

That looks like a bug to me.

I'm using the "reference" display for now.  I hope that, after everything is on one platform again, setting "Title display country/region" to "Original" will show title's original running times.  IMHO, unless a specific country is selected in a user's preferences, I think the display should always show the original running time whether or not it *also* shows the local running time guessed by geolocation or other clues.