Setting Default Date Format for Inotes users

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Subject: Setting Default Date Format for Inotes users

Feedback Type: Question

Product Area: iNotes - Full mode

Technical Area: Functionality

Platform: Windows 2003 server

Release: 8.5

Reproducible: Not applicable

Hello

Hopefully someone can help me,

We are moving from another email platform to lotus notes 8.5 using the 8.5 inotes client

I would like to set the default date format for all my users to be Day/Month/Year rather than Month/Day/Year

but I have been unable to find anywhere to set it

it would seem that the system should pick up the locale of the server

I am running 8.5 on Sles10 SP2 64 bit

the locale command returns the following

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I have also tried setting DateOrder=DMY in notes.ini but nothing seems to have any effect

I realise each user can set the format in their preferences but surely there is a system setting or do I need to set something else on the linux side

thanks in advance for any advice

Tim

Feedback number WEBB7SBR9R created by ~Maria Xanfreemarlen on 05/23/2009

Status: Open
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