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Changing Regional Settings

Different countries use different languages and different formats for displaying date, time and currency figures. Office Timesheets allows you to change the display of date, time and currency fgures so that it matches with your regional settings. You can also change the language used for the prompts and messages that are displayed by Office Timesheets.

Note: These settings can be applied to individual users, teams and/or groups of employees and enforced through Office Timesheets Security Policies.

To change the Regional Settings:

Click on Options in the System Configuration tab.
From the drop-down lists, select the date, time and currency format that you would like to use.
Select the language from the Language drop-down list.
Finally, click Save to save your settings.

Setting Regional Options

The following table provides more details about the components of the Regional Options screen—

Item

How to use the Item

Default Value
(if any)

Date Display

From the drop-down list, select how you would like dates to be displayed in Office Timesheets.

MM/dd/yyyy

Time Display

From the drop-down list, select how you would like time data to be displayed in Office Timesheets. The Time Display drop-down list contains the following values—

Value...	What it does...
hh:mm tt	Displays time values in a 12-hour format. (Eg: 3:15 PM)
HH:mm	Displays time values in a 24-hour format. (Eg: 15:15)

hh:mm tt

Currency Display

From the drop-down list, select how you would like currency amounts to be displayed in Office Timesheets. You can specify whether to use a comma (,) or a decimal point (.)

decimal point (.)

Language

Select the language you would like to use within Office Timesheets from the drop-down list.

English (US)

The Copy button

Click the Copy button to copy the current Regional Option settings and assign them to all the other users, or any one particular user.

Note: Only an administrator can assign the regional option settings to other users.

The Save as Default button

Click the Save as Default button to save the settings as the default settings for Office Timesheets. These settings will then be set for all the users of Office Timesheets who have not already saved their own settings.

Note: Only an administrator can save the settings as the default settings.

The Save button

Click the Save button to save the settings for you (the currently logged in user) alone. Office Timesheets will use these settings whenever you are logged in. For other users, Office Timesheets will use the default formats to display date, time and currency values (unless any user has specifically changed his/her regional options).

Note: If you move to some other page before clicking the Save button or the Save as Default button, the changes you have made will be discarded. Therefore, remember to always click one of these two buttons before you move away from the page.

Tip: If you do not want to save your changes, move to some other page without clicking the Save button or the Save as Default button.