Changing display locale for Confluence Date Picker Macro
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Purpose
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:
23 8월 2018
Solution
To change the display format for Confluence Date Picker Macro, aside from changing the System Locale, the following JVM Parameters can be added:
-Duser.language=en -Duser.country=US
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 |