Understanding Regional Settings

The following table presents the delivered regional settings. Users see the options allowed by permission lists.

Option Code Description Default Value

ADES (Afternoon designator (PM, pm))

(Locale-based) Specify the afternoon designator string to use to indicate PM on a 12 hour display, such as PM or pm.

This value has a 5-character limit.

PM

AUTOGREGCAL (Auto-recognize Gregorian dates)

Specify whether the system automatically recognizes and converts date values to Gregorian calendar dates.

Yes

CALENDAR (Calendar)

(Locale-based) Specify the calendar type to use. Select from these values:

  • Gregorian

  • Hijri (UmmA l-Qura)

  • Thai

Note: If auto-recognize Gregorian dates is set to Yes and the calendar is set to non-Gregorian, 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 specified calendar dates.

Gregorian

DCSP (Decimal Separator)

(Locale-based) Specify the decimal separator character for values with decimals, such as 1.00 or 1,00. You can enter any single character.

. (period)

DFRMT (Date Format)

(Locale-based) Specify the format for displaying the date. Select from the following values:

  • DDMMYY (day first)

  • MMDDYY (month first)

  • YYMMDD (year first)

MMDDYY

DTSP (Date Separator)

(Locale-based) Specify a date separator character used to separate the month, day, and year in a date. For example, if you specify a hyphen (-), the date appears as 01-01-2001. If you specify a slash (/), the date appears as 01/01/2001. You can enter any single character.

/ (slash)

LTZONE (Local Time Zone)

Select the local time zone, such as Moscow Time, Greenwich Mean Time, or Japan Standard Time.

Note: This setting alters the display of the time for the end user, but does not affect the Base Time Zone setting on the PeopleTools Options page.

Pacific Time (US), Tijuana

MDES (Morning designator (AM, am))

(Locale-based) Specify the morning designator string to use to indicate AM on a 12 hour display, such as AM or am.

This value has a 5-character limit.

AM

TFRMT (Time Format)

(Locale-based) Specify the time format for display. Select from the following values:

  • 12 hour clock (01:05:00 PM)

  • 24 hour clock (13:05:00)

Note: Whether microseconds appear is not a personalization option.

12 hour clock

TMSP (Time Separator)

Specify the time separator character to separate hours, minutes, and seconds, such as (:) or (.). You can enter any single character.

: (colon)

TSEP (Digit Group Separator)

(Locale-based) Specify the digit group separator character for displaying numerical values over 999 — such as a comma (1,000) or a period (1.000). To specify a space, enter the space between single quotes (' '). You can enter any single character.

, (comma)

TZONE (Use Local Timezone)

Indicate that transactions are to use the local time zone of the client machine.

If you select No, transactions use the local time zone of the server, where the server may in turn be set to a corporate time zone.

No

WEEKFIRSTDAY (First day of week)

(Locale-based) Specify which day begins the week.

Sunday

Locale-Based Regional Settings

Some of the regional settings, as noted in the table, are locale-based. Their values can be determined based on the locale setting of the user's browser. Because this is one of three sources that can determine which value applies, it's important to understand which source takes precedence:

  • In the Define Personalizations component (PSUSEROPTNDEFINE), you can specify default values for locale-based settings, which apply in the absence of any overriding setting.

  • The user's browser locale setting is used by the PeopleSoft system to invoke the default values of regional settings for that locale, which you can configure on the Locale Defaults page. Each setting for which you configure a value overrides any default value that's specified for that setting in the Define Personalizations component.

  • If a user specifies a value for a locale-based setting in the My Preferences - General Settings page, that value overrides any value configured for that setting for the user's browser locale on the Locale Defaults page. That value also overrides any default value that's specified for that setting in the Define Personalizations component.

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