Formatting a date field to just show the date, not minutes.

• faulknerwilliam2

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  July 6, 2015 at 3:23 pm

  #309672

  Hello

  A date field in a report returns the date value as:

  2015-07-01 13:30:27.000

  Is there any way I can script this to appear as:

  01 July 2015 (or 01-07-2015 or 01/07/2015) - basically to cut out the hours, minutes and seconds?

  The best I have managed is: CONVERT (varchar(17),DATE,113) AS Date1 but this still leaves me with:

  01 July 2015 13:30

  Any expertise in solving this would be very welcome. I can tidy it up in SSRS, but would love to script it instead.

  Thanks.

• Alvin Ramard

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  July 6, 2015 at 3:38 pm

  #1810587

  faulknerwilliam2 (7/6/2015)

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  Hello

  A date field in a report returns the date value as:

  2015-07-01 13:30:27.000

  Is there any way I can script this to appear as:

  01 July 2015 (or 01-07-2015 or 01/07/2015) - basically to cut out the hours, minutes and seconds?

  The best I have managed is: CONVERT (varchar(17),DATE,113) AS Date1 but this still leaves me with:

  01 July 2015 13:30

  Any expertise in solving this would be very welcome. I can tidy it up in SSRS, but would love to script it instead.

  Thanks.

  You could replace your date in the report with an expression which formats the data to th desired format, for example: =Format(Fields!Date.Value, "d/M/yyyy")

  This would format the date as 1/7/2015.

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• mister.magoo

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  July 6, 2015 at 4:17 pm

  #1810589

  faulknerwilliam2 (7/6/2015)

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  Hello

  A date field in a report returns the date value as:

  2015-07-01 13:30:27.000

  Is there any way I can script this to appear as:

  01 July 2015 (or 01-07-2015 or 01/07/2015) - basically to cut out the hours, minutes and seconds?

  The best I have managed is: CONVERT (varchar(17),DATE,113) AS Date1 but this still leaves me with:

  01 July 2015 13:30

  Any expertise in solving this would be very welcome. I can tidy it up in SSRS, but would love to script it instead.

  Thanks.

  If you really must format it in the query, then convert(char(10),<your column>,113) will give you 01/07/2015, but it really is better to format it in SSRS, so that people from other regions can consume the data and have the date formatted in their own style.

  MM
  

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