Changing display locale for Confluence Date Picker Macro
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Summary
The Date Picker Macro for Confluence will display the Month according to the system locale by default.
For example, if a Confluence hosted in Ubuntu that is using zh_TW.UTF-8 as its default locale, a Date Picker Macro will be displayed as below in the Confluence:
Another example is the following would be seen in the date picker when the OS locale is been set to Korean:
1
23 8월 2018Solution
To change the display format for Confluence Date Picker Macro, aside from changing the System Locale, the following JVM Parameters can be added:
1-Duser.language=en -Duser.country=USℹ️ The Internationalization: Understanding Locale in the Java Platform documentation from Oracle contains further information on the different codes to be set for language and country codes.
The details steps for adding the parameters is explained in this article - Configuring System Properties.
Date Picker Macro will display as below with the JVM Parameters in place:
Commonly used Locales
Commonly used language codes:
Language | Code |
|---|---|
Arabic | ar |
German | de |
English | en |
Spanish | es |
Japanese | ja |
Hebrew | he |
Examples of commonly used Country codes:
Country | Code |
|---|---|
United States | US |
Australia | AU |
Canada | CA |
France | FR |
Japan | JP |
Germany | DE |
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