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title: "User Culture"
slug: "user-culture"
description: "Learn how to set a User Culture in Decisions to localize date, time, number formats, and retrieve available cultures with the Get List of Cultures step."
updated: 2026-07-02T18:41:28Z
published: 2026-07-02T18:41:28Z
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# User Culture

## Overview

To assist with localization in Decisions, users are provided the option to establish a **User** **Culture** via their **Account** **Settings**. User Cultures provide users an automatic **DateTime** translation to reflect their own local values, as opposed to the System's default values. Furthermore, changing the user culture may **change the presentation of data** in Reports, Pages, and Forms. For example, changing to the en-GB (UK Culture) displays the negative sign for numbers formatted as currency.

Additionally, users may map the values for all User Cultures within an environment into a Flow via the [Get List of Cultures](https://documentation.decisions.com/step-library/docs/get-list-of-cultures) step.

The following document details how to establish a User Culture for a User Account and how to return a List of all User Cultures.

Default Culture If desired, **Admins** may adjust the **Default** **Culture** Settings via the **Globalization** category under **System > Settings > Portal Settings.** This Setting will adjust the default User Culture for all Accounts within a Decisions environment.

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## Setting User Culture

To establish the User Culture setting for a User Account:

1. From the **Decisions** **Studio**, navigate to **System > Security > Accounts**.
2. Right-click the desired **Account** and select **Edit Account**.
3. From the Account **Edit** **Entity** window, under PERSON INFORMATION, select the desired **User** **Culture** from the drop-down. Then click SAVE.
4. Verify that the User Culture was properly set by observing any changes in the **DateTime** values on a **Report** (for example, the Accounts Report). Note on User Culture Note that the User Culture should only change for the Account it was established on. If the Culture was set for a different Account, log in to that Account to verify the changes.

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