IBM BPM, V8.0.1, All platforms > Authoring services in Integration Designer > Developing business processes > Work with business calendars
Setting the business calendar type
Business calendar types, such as a Gregorian calendar or Hijri (Islamic) calendar, provide an environment for your business calendar functions. Business calendar types are set on the Preferences page.
To set the calendar type, follow these steps:
Procedure
- From the menu, select Window > Preferences. On the Preferences page, expand Business Integration and click Calendar.
- From the Calendar type drop-down list, select the type of calendar you want. The choices available are:
- Gregorian (default): This internationally accepted civil calendar provides a close approximation to the tropical year, which is the actual length of time it takes for Earth to make one orbit of the sun.
- Hijri (civil): The Hijri (or Islamic) date in this calendar is based on arithmetic rules.
- Hijri (religious): The Hijri (or Islamic) date in this calendar is based on astronomical calculations.
- From the First day of the week drop-down list, select the day that starts the week. The default. is Sunday
- Click Apply and OK to make your calendar type selection active. If you have an editor open, close and open it again to have its contents in sync with the new calendar type.
What to do next
International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J) is a set of Java libraries that provide Unicode and globalization support for applications. ICU4J affects the way time is calculated in calendars. Time is normalized so that days start at local time zone midnight (even though some calendars start at sunset or other times).
Currently, support for calendar types like the Hijri calendar is only within IBM Integration Designer; that is, it is not supported in the runtime environment.