Which JVM-argument determines the startday of a week and where can I check its value?
We noticed that when we use a date range "Last week" in for example a report that the start of the week is set to sunday where we would expect it to be set to monday. After some investigation I found an article (link: https://support.pega.com/question/how-change-start-date-calendar). In this article it states that the starting day of the week is determined by the JVM argument "user.country". When it is set to US, CA (Canada) or JP (Japan) the start day is sunday and for all others ith will be monday. So now I'm wondering if this JVM argument is still used (the article is already 7 years old) and if so how can I check the value of this argument in our environment? If it is not determined via this JVM argument (anymore) what would be the correct setting to look at? Could you please help me to get this information? Many thanks in advance, René
Pegasystems Inc.
GB
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The JVM argument "user.country" is indeed still used in current Pega versions to determine the first day of the week in reports and calendars. Despite the article being 7 years old, this functionality has not changed. As mentioned in the article you found, when this argument is set to US, CA (Canada), or JP (Japan), the start day of the week is Sunday. For all other country codes, the start day is Monday.
To check the value of this JVM argument in your environment, you have two options:
Option 1: Using Dev Studio
- Click on the Resources icon in the top-right corner of your browser
- Select "About Pega Infinity"
- In the pop-up window that appears, click the "System Information" button
- This will open the "Pega Infinity Environment Information" window
- Look for "user.country" in the System Properties section
Option 2: Using System Management Application (SMA)
@Renév545 ⚠ This is a GenAI-powered tool. All generated answers require validation against the provided references.
The JVM argument "user.country" is indeed still used in current Pega versions to determine the first day of the week in reports and calendars. Despite the article being 7 years old, this functionality has not changed. As mentioned in the article you found, when this argument is set to US, CA (Canada), or JP (Japan), the start day of the week is Sunday. For all other country codes, the start day is Monday.
To check the value of this JVM argument in your environment, you have two options:
Option 1: Using Dev Studio
- Click on the Resources icon in the top-right corner of your browser
- Select "About Pega Infinity"
- In the pop-up window that appears, click the "System Information" button
- This will open the "Pega Infinity Environment Information" window
- Look for "user.country" in the System Properties section
Option 2: Using System Management Application (SMA)
- Access the SMA for your environment
- Navigate to Advanced → Web Tier Runtime Environment
- Look for the "-Duser.country" JVM argument in the list of system properties
If you find that the user.country is set to US, CA, or JP, this explains why your reports are showing Sunday as the start of the week. If you need to change this behavior, you would need to modify this JVM argument to a different country code (such as GB for Great Britain) and restart the JVM.
If you don't see the user.country JVM argument explicitly set in your environment, it might be using the default value from your server's operating system locale settings.
References: How to change the start date of Calendar? Viewing Pega Platform system details