Welcome to my tech-hut.
I live in Venezuela, so in most places where I work the OS are usually in spanish. And here comes the thing. I love SQL Developer. I’ve been a fan since version 1.5 and some time ago (a lot of time ago, indeed) I switched to a newer version (2.xx) with the (not really good) surprise of the GUI language changed to my locale language.
Well, after some googling I stumbled upon an article where the solution was depicted, easy, beautiful… Almost wonderful.
All you have to do is look for the configuration file withing $SQLDEV_HOME/IDE, it’s called IDE.conf and add one, or at most, 2 lines. Mine looks like this:
# For the UI language setting
AddVMOption -Duser.language=en
AddVMOption -Duser.country=US
While connecting with the Oracle Database you can get this error. If so, make sure to add the following line to the JVM configuration of the client you are using:
AddVMOption -Duser.timezone="-04:30"
That’s it, folks. Give it a try and leave your comments if you need any further explanations.
