The locale determines the localized display format for numbers, dates, times,
and timestamps, as well as the language of the messages from the
This property is commonly used in conjunction with the
where derbyval is a supported locale name, in the form ll_CC,
where ll is the two-letter language code, and CC is the two-letter
country code; for example,
The following command runs
Language codes consist of a pair of lowercase letters that conform to ISO 639-1. The following table shows some examples.
To see a full list of ISO 639 codes, go to
Country codes consist of two uppercase letters that conform to ISO 3166. The following table shows some examples.
A copy of ISO 3166 can be found at