Version: 3.25

Setting up instance location

Using the orbit locale command you can define the settings for location, server time zone and internal browser language.

caution

The language settings of the web interface and proxy systems are changed through user preferences and through dedicated commands from the proxy systems.

:::alert IMPORTANT Restart the server after executing the command to apply the new language to the database system. :::

To reboot the server, use the –reboot argument together with the orbit shutdown command.

mt4adm@vmdf-giskard:~$ sudo orbit shutdown --reboot
The server system will shut down. Are you sure you want to proceed: y
Stopping database service...

mt4adm@vmdf-giskard:~$ sudo orbit locale --help
Usage: orbit locale

Language and locale settings

Flags:
  --help               Show context-sensitive help.

  --timezone=STRING    Timezone string
  --force              Force the command execution, never prompt
  --show

To list the active configuration, use the –show argument.

mt4adm@vmdf-giskard:~$ sudo orbit locale --show
Timezone
Timezone is 'America/Sao_Paulo'

To set the language of the internal browser, use the argument –browser-locale

mt4adm@vmdf-giskard:~$  sudo orbit locale --browser-locale en-gb

See the following table for valid language codes for this configuration:


`ach`	Acoli	`af`	Afrikaans	`all`	All packages for Firefox ESR (meta)
`an`	Aragonese	`ar`	Arabic	`ast`	Asturian
`az`	Azerbaijani	`be`	Belarusian	`bg`	Bulgarian
`bn`	Bengali	`br`	Breton	`bs`	Bosnian
`ca`	Catalan	`ca-valencia`	Catalan (Valencia)	`cak`	Kaqchikel
`cs`	Czech	`cy`	Welsh	`da`	Danish
`de`	German	`dsb`	Lower Sorbian	`en-ca`	English (Canada)
`en-gb`	English (United Kingdom)	`eo`	Esperanto	`es-ar`	Spanish (Argentina)
`es-cl`	Spanish (Chile)	`es-es`	Spanish (Spain)	`es-mx`	Spanish (Mexico)
`et`	Estonian	`eu`	Basque	`fa`	Persian
`ff`	Fulah	`fi`	Finnish	`fr`	French
`fy-nl`	Western Frisian (Netherlands)	`ga-ie`	Irish (Ireland)	`gd`	Scottish Gaelic
`gd`	Estonian	`gl`	Galician	`gn`	Guarani
`gu-in`	Guzerate (Índia)	`he`	Hebrew	`hi-in`	Hindi (India)
`hr`	Croatian	`hsb`	Upper Sorbian	`hu`	Hungarian
`hy-am`	Armenian (Armenia)	`ia`	Interlingua	`id`	Indonesian
`is`	Icelandic	`it`	Italian	`ja`	Japanese
`ka`	Georgian	`kab`	Kabyle	`kk`	Kazakh
`km`	Central Khmer	`kn`	Kannada	`ko`	Korean
`lij`	Ligurian	`lij`	Ligurian	`lt`	Lithuanian
`lv`	Latvian	`mk`	Macedonian	`mr`	Marathi
`ms`	Malay	`my`	Burmese	`nb-no`	Norwegian Bokm?l (Noruega)
`ne-np`	Nepali (Nepal)	`nl`	Dutch	`nn-no`	Norwegian Nynorsk (Noruega)
`oc`	Occitan	`pa-in`	Panjabi (Índia)	`pl`	Polish
`pt-br`	Portuguese (Brasil)	`pt-pt`	Portuguese (Portugal)	`rm`	Romansh
`ro`	Romanian	`ru`	Russian	`si`	Sinhala
`sk`	Slovak	`sl`	Slovenian	`son`	Songhais
`sq`	Albanian	`sr`	Serbian	`sv-se`	Swedish (Suécia)
`ta`	Tamil	`te`	Telugu	`th`	Thai
`tl`	Tagalog	`tr`	Turkish	`trs`	Chicahuaxtla Triqui
`uk`	Ukrainian	`ur`	Urdu	`uz`	Uzbek
`vi`	Vietnamese	`xh`	Xhosa	`zh-cn`	Chinese (China)
`zh-tw`	Chinese (Taiwan)	`el`	Modern Greek	sri	Brahmic
	Devanagari		Devanagari Extended		Vedic Extensions
	Latin Extended-A		Latin Extended-B

To set up a new location you must first be aware of the possibilities. The available locations are in the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo.

mt4adm@vmdf-giskard:~$ sudo orbit locale --timezone=Europe/Paris
Are you sure you want to proceed: y
Done!
No errors reported

Restarting the database service. Please wait...
Are you sure you want to proceed: y
Done!
No errors reported