Re: [Unity-idm-discuss] Formatting of dates shown in UI

[Willem E. <wi...@cl...>]

Hi Krzysztof,


On 16/05/2017 08:39, Krzysztof Benedyczak wrote:
> Hi Willem,
>
> W dniu 15.05.2017 o 16:13, Willem Elbers pisze:
>> Hello Krzysztof,
>>
>> can we customize the date format for dates shown in the UI? Currently
>> they are yy/mm/dd and we would like to have them shown as dd/mm/yy(yy).
>
> Hard to say - as this depends on which dates you are referring to.
> Besides few exceptions, in general Unity uses default format for the
> locale you use on the server. You can either change it for the server
> or overwrite for Unity only with options
>
Yes I was not very specific but meant the date format in general.
Overwriting with JVM options should be sufficient. I will test this.
> -Duser.country=CA -Duser.language=fr
> (in startup.properties, the OPTS variable)
>
> We can rather easily give a possibility to configure date format,
> however this would need rather complex setup. Sometimes we display
> only "short" date, sometime short date+time, sometimes full date+time
> etc.
>
I expect the global format to be sufficient for our needs. If not I'll
come back to you.
> Best,
> Krzysztof
Best,
Willem

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