diff --git a/core/docker/default/etc/jvm.config b/core/docker/default/etc/jvm.config
index 9d1a5afd54d7..0a6bca1bc2fa 100644
--- a/core/docker/default/etc/jvm.config
+++ b/core/docker/default/etc/jvm.config
@@ -17,7 +17,3 @@
 -XX:GCLockerRetryAllocationCount=32
 # Allow loading dynamic agent used by JOL
 -XX:+EnableDynamicAgentLoading
-# Trino server behavior does generally not depend on locale settings.
-# Use en_US as this is what Trino is tested with.
--Duser.language=en
--Duser.region=US
diff --git a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/server/Server.java b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/server/Server.java
index d9a343d87cd3..13b797fd67ba 100644
--- a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/server/Server.java
+++ b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/server/Server.java
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.Set;
 
@@ -95,6 +96,10 @@ public final void start(String trinoVersion)
 
     private void doStart(String trinoVersion)
     {
+        // Trino server behavior does not depend on locale settings.
+        // Use en_US as this is what Trino is tested with.
+        Locale.setDefault(Locale.US);
+
         long startTime = System.nanoTime();
         verifyJvmRequirements();
         verifySystemTimeIsReasonable();
diff --git a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/server/TrinoSystemRequirements.java b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/server/TrinoSystemRequirements.java
index 462cc7bdb33e..d3ec3cba1792 100644
--- a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/server/TrinoSystemRequirements.java
+++ b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/server/TrinoSystemRequirements.java
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ final class TrinoSystemRequirements
 {
     private static final int MIN_FILE_DESCRIPTORS = 4096;
     private static final int RECOMMENDED_FILE_DESCRIPTORS = 8192;
-    private static final Locale EN_US = Locale.of("en", "US");
 
     private TrinoSystemRequirements() {}
 
@@ -53,7 +52,6 @@ public static void verifyJvmRequirements()
         verifyFileDescriptor();
         verifySlice();
         verifyUtf8();
-        verifyLocale();
     }
 
     private static void verify64BitJvm()
@@ -164,14 +162,6 @@ private static void verifyUtf8()
         }
     }
 
-    private static void verifyLocale()
-    {
-        Locale defaultLocale = Locale.getDefault();
-        if (!defaultLocale.equals(EN_US)) {
-            failRequirement("Trino requires that the default locale is ENGLISH (found %s). This can be set with the JVM command line option -Duser.language=en -Duser.region=US", defaultLocale);
-        }
-    }
-
     /**
      * Perform a sanity check to make sure that the year is reasonably current, to guard against
      * issues in third party libraries.
diff --git a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/server/testing/TestingTrinoServer.java b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/server/testing/TestingTrinoServer.java
index 2e4898f375b3..d23e5ff40a2a 100644
--- a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/server/testing/TestingTrinoServer.java
+++ b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/server/testing/TestingTrinoServer.java
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@
 import java.time.Instant;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
@@ -152,6 +153,10 @@ public class TestingTrinoServer
         Logging logging = Logging.initialize();
         logging.setLevel("io.trino.event.QueryMonitor", Level.ERROR);
         logging.setLevel("org.eclipse.jetty", Level.ERROR);
+
+        // Trino server behavior does not depend on locale settings.
+        // Use en_US as this is what Trino is tested with.
+        Locale.setDefault(Locale.US);
     }
 
     public static final String SESSION_START_TIME_PROPERTY = "session_start_time";
diff --git a/core/trino-server-rpm/src/main/resources/dist/config/jvm.config b/core/trino-server-rpm/src/main/resources/dist/config/jvm.config
index 49bf611a9e92..f9d739fbd3ab 100644
--- a/core/trino-server-rpm/src/main/resources/dist/config/jvm.config
+++ b/core/trino-server-rpm/src/main/resources/dist/config/jvm.config
@@ -16,7 +16,3 @@
 -XX:GCLockerRetryAllocationCount=32
 # Allow loading dynamic agent used by JOL
 -XX:+EnableDynamicAgentLoading
-# Trino server behavior does generally not depend on locale settings.
-# Use en_US as this is what Trino is tested with.
--Duser.language=en
--Duser.region=US
diff --git a/docs/src/main/sphinx/installation/deployment.md b/docs/src/main/sphinx/installation/deployment.md
index 9ec523682802..71514738ba68 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/sphinx/installation/deployment.md
+++ b/docs/src/main/sphinx/installation/deployment.md
@@ -147,10 +147,6 @@ The following provides a good starting point for creating `etc/jvm.config`:
 -XX:GCLockerRetryAllocationCount=32
 # Allow loading dynamic agent used by JOL
 -XX:+EnableDynamicAgentLoading
-# Trino server behavior does generally not depend on locale settings.
-# Use en_US as this is what Trino is tested with.
--Duser.language=en
--Duser.region=US
 ```
 
 You must adjust the value for the memory used by Trino, specified with `-Xmx`
diff --git a/testing/trino-product-tests-launcher/src/main/resources/docker/presto-product-tests/conf/environment/multinode-all/jvm.config b/testing/trino-product-tests-launcher/src/main/resources/docker/presto-product-tests/conf/environment/multinode-all/jvm.config
index 67e8936000b6..13a9f69d5853 100644
--- a/testing/trino-product-tests-launcher/src/main/resources/docker/presto-product-tests/conf/environment/multinode-all/jvm.config
+++ b/testing/trino-product-tests-launcher/src/main/resources/docker/presto-product-tests/conf/environment/multinode-all/jvm.config
@@ -17,7 +17,3 @@
 -XX:ErrorFile=/docker/logs/product-tests-presto-jvm-error-file.log
 # Allow loading dynamic agent used by JOL
 -XX:+EnableDynamicAgentLoading
-# Trino server behavior does generally not depend on locale settings.
-# Use en_US as this is what Trino is tested with.
--Duser.language=en
--Duser.region=US
diff --git a/testing/trino-product-tests-launcher/src/main/resources/docker/presto-product-tests/conf/presto/etc/jvm.config b/testing/trino-product-tests-launcher/src/main/resources/docker/presto-product-tests/conf/presto/etc/jvm.config
index 95aab7948283..313933a433ba 100644
--- a/testing/trino-product-tests-launcher/src/main/resources/docker/presto-product-tests/conf/presto/etc/jvm.config
+++ b/testing/trino-product-tests-launcher/src/main/resources/docker/presto-product-tests/conf/presto/etc/jvm.config
@@ -16,7 +16,3 @@
 -XX:ErrorFile=/docker/logs/product-tests-presto-jvm-error-file.log
 # Allow loading dynamic agent used by JOL
 -XX:+EnableDynamicAgentLoading
-# Trino server behavior does generally not depend on locale settings.
-# Use en_US as this is what Trino is tested with.
--Duser.language=en
--Duser.region=US