About the Date Format Specified in the Initialization Settings File

For the display format for data, the default date format is set by locale setting of the browser or the language and locale setting of the server OS.

You can change this date format by coding the pattern of the display format, the separator, and the locale in the format tag of the initialization file, config.xml.

The following table lists the patterns and formats for the display format of dates corresponding to locales.

Locale	Pattern	Format
en_US	pattern-MMddyyyy	MM∆dd∆yyyy
en	pattern-ddMMyyyy	dd∆MM∆yyyy
ja	pattern-yyyyMMdd	yyyy∆MM∆dd
other than the above	pattern-ddMMyyyy	dd∆MM∆yyyy

To set the display format of the date in the initialization-setting file, config.xml, use the following tag specifications.

Tag	Attribute	Contents
format	not applicable	Indicates the route tags specifying the display format for the date.
locale-format	not applicable	Specifies the locale, the pattern and the separator corresponding to the locale. The following tags are valid in the locale-format tag. date-format locale locale-format If the locale tag is omitted, the locale-format will be invalid.
modify-format	not applicable	Specifies a change in the pattern and separator corresponding to the locale. The following tags are valid in the modify-format tag. date-format locale
date-format	not applicable	Specifies the pattern and separator. Priority is given to the date-format tag when both the date-format tag and the selectFormat tag are specified directly under the format tag.
	pattern	The specification values are as follows: pattern-MMddyyyy pattern-ddMMyyyy pattern-yyyyMMdd
	separator	The specification values are as follows: space slash hyphen period If no value is specified, the default value will be used as follows; directly under the: format tag: space locale-format tag: the separator for the base format pattern of the locale-format tag modify-format tag: none
	export-separator	The same specification value as the separator.
locale	Not applicable	Specifies the locale.