Setting up locale and time zone
You can set the default locale, time zone, and character set for your community. The correct locale helps to make people's experience in the community feel more familiar and comfortable.
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A 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 and what the character encoding is. For communities that want to support a broad variety of languages, Jive requires using UTF-8 (Unicode) as your character encoding.
You can use the Locale settings to determine 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.
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 locale preferences, which take precedence. Here's the locale precedence hierarchy, with the first given the highest precedence:
- Locale set by the user in their Preferences.
- Locale set in the user's web browser. For example, a browser set to English overrides global settings you make for another locale.
- Locale set at the space level. For more information, see Setting Space Name, Locale, and Allowed Content Types.
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- Locale set at the root space (global) level.