Global language setting in SAS VI / LEI

[Michael_Steer]

Date formatting in SAS VI / LEI is controlled by browser language settings. For example if your browser language setting is English UK then dates will be UK formatted in the UI. Whereas, if your browser language setting is English US then dates will be US formatted in the UI.

Clients don't always have access to change language settings on company laptops and therefore feel it would be beneficial for SAS VI / LEI to have a global language setting in VIYA / Environment Manager that automatically formats all dates to the preferred style of the client.

[susantrueman]

VI on Viya 4 (2024.08) provides the ability for users to set a locale override to determine the display format for dates (note, the browser locale is used by default).

For example, by default the user's browser could be set to English (en) or English-US (en-US) which displays dates in US format (i.e. MM-DD-YYYY) but with this new user setting, the user can choose a locale such as English-UK (en-UK) to be used to display dates (i.e. DD-MM-YYYY).