Locale & Time Zone Settings

You can set default locale, time zone, and character set for the site.

Locale represents a set of user interface properties -- including language and time zone, for example -- that are often related to the user's geographic region. The locale setting determines what language UI default text is displayed in. It also determines how dates are formatted, what the character encoding is, and so on. The correct locale helps to make people's experience in the community feel more familiar and comfortable. For sites that want to support a broad variety of languages, Jive requires using "UTF-8" (Unicode) as your character encoding. For more about this, see Localizing the Application.

Here you can set the server time zone, which dictates the time zone Jive uses for the midnight start time and 11:59 end time for announcements, polls, projects, tasks, and checkpoints. Blog posts obtain their settings from the user's time zone.

Admin Console: System > Management > Locale

Note: Only a subset of the languages listed are actually available in the application by default. For a list of languages in the subset, visit your user preferences page and view the Languages list on the Preferences page.

Locale Inheritance Rules

As a community administrator, be aware that when you modify locale settings for the application (global) or a space, the user may have also set their own locale preferences, which will take precedence. Here is the locale precedence hierarchy, with the first given the highest precedence:

Locale set by the user in their Preferences. For more information, see Time Zone and Locale Preferences.
Locale set in the user's Web browser. (For example, a browser set to English will override global settings you make for another locale).
Locale set at the space level (in Admin Console: Spaces > Settings > Space Settings ). See Setting Space Name, Locale, and Allowed Content Types.
Locale set at the root space (global) level ( Admin Console: System > Management > Locale ).