Problem with locale

eldire,

iReport makes it easy to set a date format in a date field. This is useful in many cases. You do not want this, because it will hard-code the format.

To get a date to display correctly in a locale-dependent way create a text field like this:
DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, $P{REPORT_LOCALE}).format( $F{MyDateField} )

That converts a java.util.Date into a String representation of the date and takes the locale into account.

Regards,
Matt

I feel I believe it that I have not explained myself well, the problem is that I use a consultation that uses sysdate to obtain the date of the system, which I put on the foot of the report. I do if it in oracle gives back Marzo to me, I do but it in Jasperserver gives back March to me. What can be the problem? It can be the operating system.

eldire,

If you use "sysdate()" in an Oracle query it does not return "Marzo". It returns a date object. (This is probably represented internally as a number of milliseconds since the epoch... but that detail is not important.) The default way of formatting this date depends on various settings. So because of your server settings and your client settings you see "Marzo".

JasperServer receives this same date object. Because of certain settings you are seeing this date object get formatted to "March".

But it's possible to tell the report to format this date object differently. Did you try the sample code I posted?

Regards,
Matt

This is an old thread but for anyone else with a similar problem, the problem is with the locale in the application server.

In Tomcat, set -Duser.language=ja -Duser.country=JP in the setenv.bat file.

set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Duser.language=ja -Duser.country=JP

E.g.