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description: Locales determine the display formats for date and time, users’ names, addresses, and commas and periods in numbers. The start day of the week for calendars varies per locale. For single-currency organizations, locales also set the default currency for the organization when you select them in the Currency Locale picklist on the Company Information page.
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# Locales Overview

Locales determine the display formats for date and time, users’ names, addresses, and commas and periods in numbers. The start day of the week for calendars varies per locale. For single-currency organizations, locales also set the default currency for the organization when you select them in the Currency Locale picklist on the Company Information page.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Group</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, <strong>Database.com</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-xcloud-setup-264-0-0-production-enus/6f21df35-9ea0-4f53-ac94-45c3b5dfd5bc/images/icon_note.png)

Note For unauthenticated guest users, date and time formats on Salesforce Sites are based on the user’s browser settings instead of the user's personal locale.

- **[Go Global with New International Locale Formats](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.icu_migration_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    To keep the Salesforce Platform up to date with the latest international standards, we adopted a new set of locale formats in Winter ’20. Locales control the formats for dates, times, currencies, addresses, names, and numeric values. We currently use International Components for Unicode (ICU) version 71.1, which uses the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) version 41. By default, orgs created before Winter ’20 use the locale formats provided by Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK).
- **[Salesforce Supported Locales and ICU Formats](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.admin_locales_icu.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Salesforce supported locales and their corresponding International Components for Unicode (ICU) formats for name, address, numbers, currencies, dates, and times. We use ICU version 71.1, which uses the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) version 41. These formats are available upon activation of the Enable ICU Formats critical update and require version 45.0 or later of the Salesforce platform API.
- **[Salesforce Supported Locales and JDK Formats](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.admin_locales_jdk.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Salesforce supported locales and their corresponding Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK) formats for name, address, numbers, currencies, dates, and times. We use JDK version 11, which uses Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) version 33. We replace these formats with the International Components for Unicode (ICU) formats in Spring ’24. Or, now you can adopt the new formats through the Enable ICU Formats release update.

#### See Also

- [Autocomplete Addresses](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.customize_maps_autocomplete.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "When you enable autocomplete addresses, users of Salesforce app, Experience Cloud Aura, and Experience Cloud Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) sites can enter text in address fields and see possible matching addresses in a picklist.")