I had some fun with date formats a while back in this thread

http://www.mojoportal.com/Forums/Thread.aspx?thread=8605&mid=34&pageid=5&ItemID=5

in which Joe pointed out that mojoPortal shows dates in the format suiting the browser. Recently however I've had a problem where the latest version of Chrome show US dates regardless.

In the "under the bonnet" section of Chrome's options, I have it set to "English (United Kingdom)" for both display and spell-checking. Yet dates still show in US format.

I sniffed the http requests and found that while IE sends this: 

Accept-Language: en-gb

Chrome sends this:

Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,en-GB;q=0.6

Is this the information used by mojoPortal?

In this case, since my users insist on British dates (and on using Chrome!) I have had to force the site like this in user.config:

<add key="site1culture" value="en-GB" />

<add key="UseCultureOverride" value="true" /> 

Is this a bug in Chrome? Do I have any other options? Worth a wee note on this page about language settings?

Thanks Joe - it is true, my language settings had "English (United States)" top, then "English", and then "English (United Kingdom)".  And yes I see now these can be re-ordered by dragging. and yes, this does ensure the dates display in the correct format.

The silly thing is (re Chrome) that I had En-GB showing "Google Chrome is displayed in this language" and "This language is used for spell-checking", so as a user I felt there was nothing more I could do. I would have expected it to use that setting and send it as priority item in headers. It was not clear that re-ordering these items was possible or would make any difference to anything.

This is a Google issue not a mojoPortal one, but worth noting here because it has tripped us up and several users already. In effect we have had to hard wire the site to en-GB because of this (in user.config as shown below).

cheers

Crispin