Although Solr strives to be agnostic of the Locale where the server is running, some code paths in DataImportHandler are known to depend on the System default Locale, Timezone, or Charset. It is recommended that when running Solr you set the following system properties: -Duser.language=xx -Duser.country=YY -Duser.timezone=ZZZ where xx, YY, and ZZZ are consistent with any database server's configuration.