Defining User-Specific, Locale-Based Formatting

Use the Regional Settings preferences on the My Preferences – General Settings page to specify how PeopleTools should format each field that contains numbers, dates, and times. Each individual formatting element can be overridden on a user-by-user basis.

To override any of these values, enter the appropriate value or select one from the drop-down list box in the Override Value column. For example, if you prefer to use a dash ( - ) instead of a slash ( / ) to separate the components of dates, enter a dash character in the Override Value column for the Date Separator personalization option. Values maintained here are specific to your user ID.

If you leave any of these override values blank, they will be evaluated next time you sign in based on your browser language preference, and if locale-specific preferences aren’t found for your language, they are automatically populated from the system-wide values, as shown in the Default Value column on this page.

Note:

If auto-recognize Gregorian dates is set to Yes (the default) and the calendar is set to a non-Gregorian calendar, any dates entered in date fields that fall in the range of the Gregorian calendar will be assumed to be Gregorian and will be converted to the specified calendar's dates.