Localization

Depending on your country, you might want to adapt some details in the configuration.

Some are defined in the locales (your language configuration). If this is the same in all the countries that speak your language, then you can change it directly in the translations. You can read more about how to contribute translations to Decidim). If the changes that you need are only for your country or your installation, then you need to configure it on your application. This page explains how to do that.

Date and time formats

These are defined in the YAML. You can read more about this in the Rails Internationalization (i18n) API and also in the Texts page.

The following keys are relevant to time and date format:

  date:
    formats:
      decidim_short: "%d/%m/%Y"
      decidim_short_dashed: "%d-%m-%Y"
      decidim_short_with_month_name_short: "%d %b %Y"
      decidim_with_day_and_month_name: "%A %d %b %Y"
      decidim_with_month_name: "%d %B %Y"
      decidim_with_month_name_short: "%d %b"
      help:
        date_format: 'Format: dd/mm/yyyy'
      order: d-m-y
      separator: "/"

If you need to change the format to comply with the United States of America standard, you must do the following:

  1. Create or update the file config/locales/en.yml in your generated application.

  2. Add the following snippet:

en:
  date:
    formats:
      decidim_short: "%m/%d/%Y"
      decidim_short_dashed: "%m-%d-%Y"
      decidim_short_with_month_name_short: "%b %d %Y"
      decidim_with_day_and_month_name: "%A, %b %d %Y"
      decidim_with_month_name: "%B %d %Y"
      decidim_with_month_name_short: "%b %d"
      help:
        date_format: 'Format: mm/dd/yyyy'
      order: m-d-y
      separator: "/"

  1. Restart your application server.

Note that in the case of the order value, currently it only supports two values:

  • m-d-y

  • d-m-y

Currency unit

If you are using the Budget component or the Proposals' answers with costs feature, you may want to change the DECIDIM_CURRENCY_UNIT environment variable to a currency other than the default Euro (€). Read more about how to customize Environment Variables.