Form date language to English

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June 11, 2021
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Hello,

I have Adobe Acrobat Pro DC English version. I created a form with field fomated as a Date with dd-mmm-yyyy. Document language is set to English but date picker is all over the world. Problem is that for date picker it is showing in there local laguage. After the date picker enter date and share the PDF form, field is populated in different laguage for me (Ex: Spanish,Japanese). I want to restrict the date language to English for all.

How can I fix this? Do i need to write any validation script for this ?

Thank you.

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JR Boulay

Adobe Expert

"How is that different from using the Date format with that pattern? The issue is they're using "mmm" instead of "mm"."

So he should use:

// VALIDATION SCRIPT
var d = util.scand("dd-mmm-yyyy", event.value);
if (d == null) {
app.alert("Please enter a Date at the dd-mmm-yyyy format.");
event.rc = false;
}

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try67

Adobe Expert

That doesn't solve the problem that the end-user could still enter the month name in their local language...

JR Boulay

Adobe Expert

So the OP should loop to my first answer. 🙂

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bebarth

Adobe Expert

Apart the iso date format, you can add an invisible field.
In validation of the date field you type:
if (event.value!="") this.getField("invField").value=util.scand("dd-mmm-yyyy", event.value);
else this.getField("invField").value="";
and you create a document level script:
if (this.getField("invField").value!="") this.getField("theDate").value=util.printd("dd-mmm-yyyy", new Date(this.getField("invField").value));

You can try changing the language of your Acrobat Pro software.
@+

Form_date_language_to_English_BB.pdf

JR Boulay

Adobe Expert

The secret is that in this case you should not use the Date format, nor any other "format" and use this as a Validation script:

// VALIDATION SCRIPT
var d = util.scand("yyyy-mm-dd", event.value);
if (d == null) {
app.alert("Please enter a Date at the yyyy-mm-dd format.");
event.rc = false;
}

This script works with any date format, just edit what is orange.

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