Most of the people reading this are probably in the United States, so on our User record, we have Locale set to “English (US).” This has a few effects on how we see Salesforce data, including the Calendar.
I wanted to change the first day of my week to Monday, and to see my weekends on the right-side of the 7-day view. I’ve started doing this on my Google and Outlook calendars, so why not be consistent? To do this, I changed my Locale to “English (United Kingdom).”
There’s a catch (there always is!): My dates are now reversed. D’Oh!
Time will tell if I have any other major changes to the org. I don’t mind British spellings (colour vs. color) — though I’ve found the word “color” three times since I switched. The org currency will remain US Dollars, as that is set elsewhere, in the Company Profile.
So what will I do, on the whole? I need to decide if the date format is more or less important than the week format. I’ll try out this UK thing… and will decide later.
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Just an FYI – locale does not control your language – only your settings. Salesforce does not currently support a UK English label set.
We’re looking at separating out start of week day (as well as some other settings) from locale (it’s on the idea exchange) but don’t yet have it scheduled for a release.