Key questions about this property
The answers below summarize the purpose, scope, default effect, and review scenarios for this property.
| What does it do? |
This property defines the locale format for language and country, impacting currency conversion and localization throughout the platform. |
| What area does it affect? |
Localization and Currency Settings |
| What does the default mean? |
No default value is documented in this property record. |
| When should you review it? |
Review this property when setting up a new instance or changing user locale requirements. |
Out of the box property record
Raw metadata from the property record.
| Property name |
glide.system.locale |
| Sys ID |
976c364ec0a8000500555538944bbbf6 |
| Type |
string |
| Application |
Global |
| Default value |
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| Description |
Locale code to use for localization. Format is [language code].[country code] (e.g. en.GB for Britain fr.FR for France, de.DE for Germany, or ja.JP for Japan).<br/>
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NOTE: Do not change this value once a system has gone into production. If a user's locale must be changed, update the "Country code" field on the user record.<br/>
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The value of this property determines the system's default currency into which all prices are automatically converted before other sums or conversions are performed.<br/>
Changing this property after any price or currency fields have been given a value (for Service Catalog items, Assets, Project Tasks, etc.) may result in improper conversion or prices that sum incorrectly. |
| Updated |
2024-08-02 00:30:01 |
Sources
Official references and nearby text excerpts where this property appears.
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Snippet 1
... the specified order, to determine the reference currency code: ◦If the glide.system.reference_currency system property is set to true, uses the value in the glide.system.reference_currency.code system property. ◦The value in the glide.system.locale system property (which implies a currency). ◦Default locale of the Java Virtual Machine on which the instance is running. This code example returns the default reference currency. var cur_config = ...
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Snippet 2
... currency code for the target currency. For example, to set the currency to USD, enter USD. 7. Navigate to All, and in the navigation filter, enter sys_properties.list. 8. Search for glide.system.locale, and open the property record. © 2026 ServiceNow, Inc. All rights reserved. ServiceNow, the ServiceNow logo, Now, and other ServiceNow marks are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ServiceNow, Inc., in ...
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Snippet 3
... to calculate the Total planned benefit of the project. Entered currency Currency in which you want the benefit plan to be created. Functional currency Currency that is obtained from the glide.system.locale property . For upgraded customers, if the selected currency is different from the functional currency configured in the Financial Management application, the corresponding budget reference rate is used to calculate ...
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Snippet 4
... know how reference currencies work on the ServiceNow AI Platform. A brief summary with links follows. For a Price or Currency field, the system reference currency is the value of glide.system.locale as set in the localization properties. If this property is not set, the system default based on physical location is used. For more information about setting the reference currency for ...
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... fr, AI Search uses the matching locale as the global fallback locale. 2. Otherwise, AI Search uses the ServiceNow AI Platform instance's locale, as specified by the value of the glide.system.locale system property, as the global fallback locale. 3. If the glide.system.locale system property's value isn't a valid locale, AI Search uses English as the global fallback locale. For more details ...
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