Report date format

Submitted by sorrentovet on Tue, 16/08/2016 - 12:33

Implementation discussion

Hi guru's,

I'm using v1.8.1 and can't seem to fix the date format in my reports. Printing as mm/dd/yy but I want it as dd/mm/yy.

I've checked:

- Windows Regional settings on server, all good.

- Tomcat config file, all good.

- v1.8.1 reports does seem to use Region Locale.

- dates are displaying correctly in OPENVPMS.

Any pointers of where I'm not looking?

Regards,

Re: Report date format

Submitted by tgething (not verified) on Tue, 16/08/2016 - 13:13.

I just filled this hole in the documenation - but for 1.9 - see http://www.openvpms.org/documentation/csh/1.9/topics/install/windows-loc....

I would appreciate it if you read the above and provided any comments/corrections. Actually the start point is the requirements sections http://www.openvpms.org/documentation/csh/1.9/topics/installing-openvpms... where there is now a Locale and Fonts bullet added.

NOTE: although the above is in the 1.9 stuff, it all applies to 1.8 except for the 'resource bundles' bit which is a 1.9 facility.

Note2: when I did the Win 10 upgrade on my development laptop, I found that my locale (user and system) locale had been set to the US.

Regards, Tim G

Re: Report date format

Submitted by sorrentovet on Tue, 16/08/2016 - 14:43.

Thanks Tim G, worked a charm.

My missing piece in the puzzle was the System Locale that I needed to change; I was obviously just looking at the logged in 'user' locale settings previously.

As a comment on your [already] excellent documentation, I would put the following sentence on it's own line:

"Note that the locale used by OpenVPMS is that seen by the Java environment and that this can be different from that you see when you log on as a Windows user. For how to set/check the Java locale see here."

...and maybe alter the last sentence above to read: "For how set set/check the System Locale (which Java uses), see here."

Thanks again!