Changing Regional Settings in SharePoint

Regional Settings determines your date and time format of a SharePoint Web application.It can be set at three levels

1. Web Level
2. Site Level
3. User Level

To Change the Regional settings at a web level, use the following power shell commands

 

$spsite= Get-SPSite -Identity "http://mysite/testSite "

$rootWebSite = $spsite.RootWeb

$website = $spsite.OpenWeb($rootWebSite.ID)

$culture = [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::CreateSpecificCulture(“en-GB”)

$website.Locale = $culture

$website.Update()

$website.Dispose()

$rootWebSite.Dispose()

$spsite.Dispose()