diff --git a/phpunit.xml.dist b/phpunit.xml.dist
index e2db60a85..2c34f7d3a 100644
--- a/phpunit.xml.dist
+++ b/phpunit.xml.dist
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 >
     <php>
         <ini name="error_reporting" value="-1" />
+        <ini name="intl.default_locale" value="en_US" />
         <env name="KERNEL_CLASS" value="App\Kernel" />
         <env name="APP_ENV" value="test"/>
         <env name="APP_DEBUG" value="1"/>
diff --git a/tests/.gitignore b/tests/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb..000000000