Jenkins in Windows shows UI in russian language - jenkins

I am from Ukraine.
When I open Jenkins in the browser I see all the UI in Russian.
I am running Jenkins on Windows.
However - there is no Russian in Windows configuration "Region and Settings".
Format - English(United States).
Location - United States.
Only the Timezone is Ukrainian - UTC +02:00.
Is it possible to force Jenkins to show the UI in English language?
PS.
I did not have such a problem with Hudson before.
Locale Plugin helped to change the default locale to English.
I changed the language in the configuration of Chrome and now Jenkins is in English :)

By default, Jenkins uses the default language of your browser, if it is set. To change it, you could do the follow.
1. Download and install the locale plugin:
From the main page of Jenkins, go to Manage Jenkins -> Manage Plugins
Click on Availables
Check the "Locale plugin" and clicks on "Download now and install after restart".
Jenkins will download the plugin and restart if not job has been scheduled.
2. Set the language:
Once the plugin has been installed, change the language using following steps:
From the main page of Jenkins, go to Manage Jenkins -> Configure System.
Under Locale, there will be a field called "Default Language". Enter the new language. It could be "en" or "ENGLISH".
Under the text box, check the checkBox called "Ignore browser preference and force this language to all users".

Locale Plugin helped to change default locale to en.

A better and more simple solution is to just remove Russian from Chrome.
In other words, change Browser Language Settings.
e.g. for Chrome, Go to Chrome Settings -> Language -> Remove selected language.

You have to install the Locale plugin, which is already available but not installed as default, and then under Manage System > Locale insert "Locale.ENGLISH" in java style.

Maybe you can try this
$ sudo languagesetup
and choose 1) Use English for the main language to change it back.
Reference,
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202036

By default, Jenkins takes your browser language. To change it, you need to install Locale plugin and set proper language to ignore browser preferences. Go to Manage Jenkins -> Configure System, find Default Language and set what you need.
You can check the video https://youtu.be/UiikMY1uW1w

Seems like chrome has an issue on this,
It kept sending Hebrew as the first option in the
Accept-Language on the header
although English was set to be the top-language on the list (Chrome settings > Languages)
Solution
And only after I've added some other language (Russian for instance) and set it to be the 'top' and then set the English back to be the 'top' it solved!

All you need to do is change your browser's language settings and put english first.

My operating system is windows 10. I want to use English languages for Jenkins UI.
For Region & Languages, I added Turkish and English my default setting is English, however, Jenkins UI is Turkish. If I remove Turkish Jenkins UI looks fine and it turns on English.

My solution is pretty simple: use an extension in Chromium compatible browsers like this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/locale-switcher/kngfjpghaokedippaapkfihdlmmlafcc, that lets you change the locale of the browser easily.
This solution works not only for Jenkins, but for many other websites, and doesn't require to restart Jenkins.
You can test the web with differents languages.

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Change browser timezone in cypress.io (Windows) [duplicate]

I just wrote a little piece of code to show the server time in a webpage. At the moment I just have one machine so I cannot test if the code is working.
Is there a way to tell the browser to use a time configuration different from the one configured in the OS? I have used plugins for Firefox to test different locales, I wonder if there are similar options for time tests.
Thanks.
Create a new empty directory for a separate Chrome user profile. E.g. with
mkdir ~/chrome-profile
You specify the TZ environment variable. You can see the valid timezones for example here, in column TZ.
To start Chrome, use these commands:
for Mac OS X: TZ='US/Pacific' open -na "Google Chrome" --args "--user-data-dir=$HOME/chrome-profile"
for Linux: TZ='US/Pacific' google-chrome "--user-data-dir=$HOME/chrome-profile"
Unfortunately, JavaScript is only aware of the current time zone, as it is set by the operating system. There are no facilities to let the Date object use a different time zone in a particular context. There are some libraries to do time zone conversions, but that won't help for what you are asking.
On Linux, Mac OSX, and other *NIX systems, you can set the TZ environment variable. See Benedikt Köppel's answer for details.
However, there is no facility for this on Windows. Some Windows programs may pick up on the TZ environment variable, but those that do will not necessarily interpret it correctly, as they aren't wired up to support IANA time zone names. More on this here and here.
You don't need to change OS variables or extensions to do this in 2021.
Chrome Dev Tools > Hamburger Menu > More Tools > Sensors
On the Location section select your location or give it a timezone id (e.g. America/Chicago, America/New_York)
On popular demand (kidding!), the explanation.
Google Chrome reads the environment variables to get the timezone its running in. Apparently all instances of Chrome share the value (not tested). In order to force a timezone, we need to a) set the environment variable to the timezone we want, b) kill all existing instances of Chrome, c) Print the current timezone to confirm, and d) Start Chrome with the intended timezone.
The below shell script is tested with OS X but should work for others too.
export TZ='US/Pacific'
killall Chrome
date
open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app
Chrome seems to update its TimeZone as soon as you change it in Windows. Firefox seems to store the timezone value of the system at startup.
With Visual Studio it looks like you can turn the trick on its head. It seems that the Timezone is only read when you first start the debug process. So In my case, what I did was set the TimeZone to, for example, Eastern Standard Time. Start the Visual Studio debugger. I then changed the TimeZone to, for example, Pacific Standard time. The server at this point remained in the Eastern timezone, while my browser was in the Pacific timezone. Now I was able to test the client browser behavior just fine.
If you wanted to test a client in Japan, then just update your TimeZone and the browser will follow it. As long as you don't restart the debug process your server timezone will not change. Also just changing the time (as opposed to the timezone) did not work.
There is a lot of time zone extensions available to spoof in browser level. I am using currently
After adding click option of the extension and check
Once both done, Go to any website and open developer tools and check by executing below command
new Date().toLocaleTimeString()
Old question, but I had a similar issue and I'll throw my fix in anyways.
What I did was run my server in a virtual machine, set the network settings to bridged so that I'd be able to access the server from my host OS as the client easily.
I then changed time settings in the VM so that there was whatever difference I wanted between the client and server.
Maybe it will help someone. You can change time zone for Windows 10 using this steps:
Open Settings.
Click on Time & Language.
Click on Date & time.
Change time zone to your need.
P.s. According to the #Oscar Acevedo comment this answer is not quite correct. It's suitable for testing different time zones.
This an easies way I tried to chang time zone and test it for windows 7 ^
I use tzutil
tzutil /s "Eastern Standard Time"
and save it to suitable .bat file e.g Eastern_Standard_Time_zone.bat and use default_time_zone.bat conain your original system time zone to get it back after finishin tesing . this will change your time zone in blink .
reference
If you are into reproducibility, I suggest that you use an e2e environment, i.e. tooling that can automate browsers and allows to manipulate their time zone.
That way you won't have to fiddle around with the system time zone and you can add tests, that specifically do use different time zones, i.e. you can test your code in different time zones.
Two of the most recent popular libraries for browser automation, Puppeteer and Playwright explicitly allow setting the time zone. Using Playwright you get the ability to automate setting the time zone for all major evergreen browsers (Safari, Firefox and Chrome / ChromeEdge):
for Puppeteer you have to use page.emulateTimezone
for Playwright you have to use a newContext
You're probably better off leaving your computer timezone intact and changing your server settings to reflect a timezone ahead or behind of you. This is usually pretty easy to do depending on the server you're using.

Translate JMeter menu items

About Translate JMeter projects,
I follow the translating steps and open I18NEdit,
I see the translation text options but I notice that I can't localize Menu items as File, Exit,..
It seems that there are texts (messages.properties) that can't be localized.
Is messages.properties localization is done manually by adding messages_[locale].properties?
Am I missing something ? Is it on purpose or should an enhancement be opened?
We don't really use i18nedit for translation. But you can still use it.
Anyway, Internationalization in JMeter is based on properties files:
src/core/org/apache/jmeter/resources/messages_[locale].properties
src/components/..../*.properties (except some like colors.properties)
src/protocol/..../*.properties
No need to translate deprecated components.
The 2 latter are related to components that rely on TestBean approach (no specific GUI)
Note that a PR (github mirror) is preferred over a patch:
https://github.com/apache/jmeter/blob/trunk/CONTRIBUTING.md

Jenkins - change title of main page

How can I change the title in the Jenkins start page:
http://jenkinsserver.domain.whatever:9090/
As I see, the title is already in German with some special UTF-8 chars and this one makes trouble using selenium in the background to control Jenkins. I am quite sure the value is set somewhere - but where?
Jenkins runs on a Windows server.
You can just install the Simple Theme Plugin and then in Manage Jenkins > Configure System > Theme, point the URL of theme JS field to a .js file containing at minimum something like:
document.title = "Wathever title you prefer";
Save and reload the page.
It worked for me..
Jenkins is using the browser locale language settings, change that. Please also better specify the question, what do you mean by title? Local domain address? If so, this can be done in settings -> "Jenkins URL".

where does asp and iis 6.0 get its date format

I've found a dilly of a pickle with a new web server. We have a new web server that is displaying dates differently than our old web servers.
We are running asp classic web pages on IIS 6.0 with windows server 2003.
We have logged in as an administrator and set the regional settings as appropriate and then applied the settings to current user and default user profile.
We then went into registry and update the appropriate formats under HKEY_USERS/.default/control panel/international.
Update the asp.net configuration for our websites to the correct code-page and locale.
Does anyone have other places that the application could be getting date formats from?
I know this isn't the 'proper' way to fix the issue. However, the application was written many years ago, getting something through planning/change control would be a pain, and is the only application running on the server. Thus it is okay to configure the server to cater to this single application. Besides it was driving me crazy that a new server that should be configured identically to an old server was not working.
It turns out that in addition to HKEY_USERS/*/Control Panel/international, there is a setting for non-unicode programs. It can be found under HKLM/system/currentcontrolset/control/nls/language/Default. Set that to the correct code page and it is golden.
On the other hand, if you prefer to not modify the registry directly, you can update all these values through the Regional settings from the control panel.
You can adjust the formats through the 'customize' button.
You can change the 'language for non-unicode programs' under advanced tab.
Just make sure that you check the 'apply to the default profile' at the bottom of the advanced tab.
I don't think the highest vote answer is right, though it's close.
I had to use regedit to change all the internationalization settings of HKU\S-1-5-19\Control Panel\International (NT Authority) and HKU\S-1-5-20\Control Panel\International (Network Service) to match the settings that were already in HKU\S-1-5-18\Control Panel\International (Local System).
This worked perfectly.
I modified all the settings I could see which were different, by hand.
I should think I only really needed to change the settings for S-1-5-20 (Network Service).
Go to Control Panel -> Regional And Language Options, set all options you need, then under 'Advanced' tab select settings for non-Unicode programs and check 'Apply all settings to the current account and to the default user profile.'. Press OK and restart server.
On Windows Server 2008 administrators have additional 'Administrative' tab. There press 'Copy to reserved accounts'.
Classic ASP Defaults to the Locale ID that was configured when the server was Setup. If you have access to the original server run the following code to get Locale ID it's operating under and verify that the new server is using the same.
<%=Session.LCID%>
If the Locale IDs are different and you cannot change it on the new server then you can add a line to the Session_OnStart sub in the global.asa for the application that assigns the correct Locale ID to Session.LCID.
Using an ASP page with the content:-
Response.Write GetLocale
Might be informative, it'll show you what locale VBScript thinks its using.
I've seen issues like this in the dim and distant past when using integrated security. The ASP caches the regional details from a user hive when it first needs to use them then continues to use those settings until the process dies. ASP gets these settings from the user hive associated with the user identity the code is currently running under. Most of the time that would be DEFAULT because the user doesn't have a profile on the system.
However if the user happens to have logged on interactively to the server they will have a profile and so their settings are used. Hence I've seen situations where the server appears to have intermitten problems with regional settings.
I can't recall if I've seen this on IIS6, I've definitely seen it on IIS5.
If you run your ASP application under a different account (not IUSR_Guest)
Login as that account, set date/time format to what you want and restart IIS.

How to change system default regional settings in windows XP?

How can I change the system-default regional settings in windows XP for use by services (run by the system user)?
Regional and Language Options in the control panel modify the settings for the logged-in user. However, services don't use the user's settings - they use the system settings. I know that they can be found in the registry here:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International
My question is: What mechanism is there for changing the system-language/date/etc from en-us to en-gb?
This was helpfull for me
"Apply regional and language settings to reserved accounts".
In short (Windows 7): Open "Region and Language" dialog, then click the "Administrative" tab, and then click "Copy settings...", select "Welcome screen and system accounts", OK.
There is no documented way to do that.
A quick look in the Regional Settings Applet dll shows that it calls a totally undocumented API: NlsUpdateSystemLocale().
Why do you want to do that? Do you want to control the locale of a service of yours? Then let your service run under a user account you control.
Could you not use regedt32 on a machine and make all the correct settings...then export the International folder by right clicking and export the reg file.
you can manually edit the exported reg file if you dont need all the settings
then you can run that reg file on a new machine to import the registry keys etc?
Not so easy.
Fast way: define a specific user to run the service, logon with that user, set the regional settings, run the service.
IM not sure if this will help
First type in gpedit.msc from the run command and a dialog box should now open.
Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Regional Settings.
This shows the group polcies for the PC/s, maybe you can just set it so en_gb is the only option!!
Group Policy is not my strong point, but do a google search and go from there, I would imagine that you should be able to set up who and what can do what from here.
HTH

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