# Change language of the Calendar component

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-language-of-the-calendar-component/19213>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 11, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-language-of-the-calendar-component/19213 "2018-08-11T19:36:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-language-of-the-calendar-component/19213/1 "2018-08-11T19:36:53Z")

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Hi,  
Does anyone know how to change the language of the calendar component(names of months and days)?

I have chosen the locale to be "da\_DK" in order to have european numbering format of decimal numbers. That way all numbers use comma as delimiter between the integer part and the fractional part instead of dot.  
I have not put any translations in the translation manager, so everything is still in english except from the calendar components. The months of the calendar component is in danish but I wish it to be in english.

I have experienced a bit with the function "setLocale()"-function of the calendar component in a script on the main window under the event handler visionWindow -\> visionWindowOpened.:  
NOTE: The calendar component is placed on the main window and the locale of the client is set to "da\_DK" in the client startup script.

> import java

> obj = system.gui.getParentWindow(event).getComponentForPath('Root Container.Calendar')  
> defaultLoc = obj.getLocale()  
> print defaultLoc

> tmp = java.util.Locale('en','US')  
> obj.setLocale(tmp)

> print obj.getLocale()

This doesn't change the language of the calendar component but the last line "print obj.getLocale()" is printing "en\_US" in the console. So something is obviously changing but not the text of months and days..

Any ideas what I should try?

Thanks in advance