Changing a Project's Region settings

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Property values require certain formatting in different regions to match any Data Type constraints for Integer, Decimal and Date/Time properties. For example in Australia the decimal "one hundred and twenty three thousand four hundred and fifty six point seven eight nine" is represented as "123,456.789", while in Germany it would be represented as "123.456,789" and in France it would be "123 456,789". Similarly, in the US the "second of December 1970" is represented as a short date as "12/2/1970" but in the United Kingdom it is represented as "2/12/1970" and in Poland as "1970-12-02". Accordingly, to work with an ABACUS project across regions a global setting per ABACUS project is required.

Region defaults

The following table lists the defaults for each region as set through the File | Project Options... menu item. Please see below the table for a list of the symbols used.

Region	Decimal Symbol	Digit grouping	Negative sign	Short Time	Long Time	AM / PM symbol	Short Date	Long Date
English (Australia)	.	,	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	AM \| PM	dd/MM/yyyy	dd MMMM yyyy
English (United Kingdom)	.	,	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	AM\|PM	dd/MM/yyyy	dd MMMM yyyy
English (United States)	.	,	-	h:mm tt	h:mm:ss tt	AM\|PM	M/d/yyyy	dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy
French (France)	,	space	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	\|	dd/MM/yyyy	dddd d MMMM yyyy
German (Germany)	,	.	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	\|	dd.MM.yyyy	dddd, d. MMMM yyyy
Italian (Italy)	,	.	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	\|	dd/MM/yyyy	dddd d MMMM yyyy
Spanish (Spain)	,	.	-	H:mm	H:mm:ss	\|	dd/MM/yyyy	dddd, dd' de 'MMMM' de 'yyyy
English (Canada)	.	,	-	h:mm tt	h:mm:ss tt	AM\|PM	dd/MM/yyyy	MMMM-dd-yy
French (Canada)	,	space	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	\|	yyyy-MM-dd	d MMMM yyyy
Arabic (U.A.E.)	.	,	-	hh:mm tt	hh:mm:ss tt	ص\|م	dd/MM/yyyy	dd MMMM, yyyy
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)	.	,	-	hh:mm tt	hh:mm:ss tt	ص\|م	dd/MM/yy	dd/MMMM/yyyy
English (South Africa)	,	space	-	hh:mm tt	hh:mm:ss tt	AM\|PM	yyyy/MM/dd	dd MMMM yyyy
English (New Zealand)	.	,	-	h:mm tt	h:mm:ss tt	a.m.\|p.m.	d/MM/yyyy	dddd, d MMMM yyyy
English (India)	.	,	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	AM\|PM	dd-MM-yyyy	dd MMMM yyyy
German (Switzerland)	.	'	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	\|	dd.MM.yyyy	dddd, d. MMMM yyyy
French (Belgium)	,	.	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	\|	d/MM/yyyy	dddd d MMMM yyyy
Dutch (Belgium)	,	.	-	H:mm	H:mm:ss	\|	d/MM/yyyy	dddd d MMMM yyyy
Czech (Czech Republic)	,	space	-	H:mm	H:mm:ss	dop.\|odp.	d.M.yyyy	d. MMMM yyyy
Danish (Denmark)	,	.	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	\|	dd-MM-yyyy	d. MMMM yyyy
Greek (Greece)	,	.	-	h:mm tt	h:mm:ss tt	πμ\|μμ	d/M/yyyy	dddd, d MMMM yyyy
Finnish (Finland)	,	space	-	H:mm	H:mm:ss	\|	d.M.yyyy	d. MMMM'ta 'yyyy
Hungarian (Hungary)	,	space	-	H:mm	H:mm:ss	de.\|du.	yyyy.MM.dd.	yyyy. MMMM d.
Dutch (Netherlands)	,	.	-	H:mm	H:mm:ss	\|	d-M-yyyy	dddd d MMMM yyyy
Norwegian, Bokmål (Norway)	,	space	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	\|	dd.MM.yyyy	d. MMMM yyyy
Polish (Poland)	,	space	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	\|	yyyy-MM-dd	d MMMM yyyy
Russian (Russia)	,	space	-	H:mm	H:mm:ss	\|	dd.MM.yyyy	d MMMM yyyy 'г.'
Swedish (Sweden)	,	space	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	\|	yyyy-MM-dd	'den 'd MMMM yyyy
Korean (Korea)	.	,	-	tt h:mm	tt h:mm:ss	오전\|오후	yyyy-MM-dd	yyyy'년' M'월' d'일' dddd
Hebrew (Israel)	.	,	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	AM\|PM	dd/MM/yyyy	dddd dd MMMM yyyy
Japanese (Japan)	.	,	-	HH:mm	HH:mm:ss	\|	yyyy/MM/dd	yyyy年MM月dd日

The following symbols are used to specify how dates and times are displayed:

Time symbols
h	Hour (hh displays the hour with a leading zero)
m	Minute (mm displays the minute with a leading zero)
s	Second (ss displays the second with a leading zero)
tt	A.M. or P.M.
h/H	12 or 24 hour time display

Date symbols
d, dd	Day
ddd, dddd	Day of the week
M	Month
y	Year