format date within reporting services

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format date within reporting services

Jules Bonnot

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June 28, 2006 at 5:52 am

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I need to display a date in uk format without the time portion. My report runs from a AS cube so cant use convert in SQL. I think you can set the language option for the whole report. Anyone know how.
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Chandrasekhar-341193 Old Hand Points: 350 More actions · Answer 1

Jules,

I think it's very simple to change the format of the date in Reporting services. High light the cell in reporting services, click the properties for Date field, Choose custom and put the format as dd/MM/yyyy and it worked for me in displaying the dates in UK format.

Regards

Nilesh-618477 SSC-Addicted Points: 429 More actions · Answer 2

Working on SSRS, Issue faced with International data display in report.

I used =FormatDateTime(Parameters!StartDate.Value)

it will work in US as per date format "mm/dd/yyyy"

But how same date format will dsiplay for user like India or other countries?

how do set International Date format in SSRS.

Carolyn Richardson SSCrazy Eights Points: 8357 More actions · Answer 3

There is a simpler way, by default reporting services are installed using English (United States) as the default date format adjust the Report properties language to English (United Kingdom)

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j.powell@elsevier.com Old Hand Points: 371 More actions · Answer 4

On a slightly different note, in Business Intelligence Design Studio any date parameters seems to want input in MM/DD/YYYY format regardless of the language setting of the report. As my default dates are DD/MM/YYYY this means I have to tweak them everytime I run a report whilst testing it in BIDS.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Jonathan

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173045 More actions · Answer 5

Nilesh,

Please start new threads when asking additional questions. I almost answered the original poster when I saw that he had posted back in 2006 and his question was probably not relevant any more.

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nahk.fussuy Ten Centuries Points: 1042 More actions · Answer 6

Jonathan Powell (1/24/2008)
On a slightly different note, in Business Intelligence Design Studio any date parameters seems to want input in MM/DD/YYYY format regardless of the language setting of the report. As my default dates are DD/MM/YYYY this means I have to tweak them everytime I run a report whilst testing it in BIDS.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Jonathan

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I too get bugged by this problem, Is there any way to resolve? Is annoying entering in us format and all dates in report come out in the format I want (yyyy-mm-dd) grr :hehe:

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173045 More actions · Answer 7

Please do not post new questions to an existing thread. Post a new thread.

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Paul Shearing Valued Member Points: 69 More actions · Answer 8

The is a persistent problem and an annoying one that is part of the "America is so big that others will just have to accept our defaults" issues. Others include the constant reversion of Outlook to an American spelling dictionary and printers mysteriously adopting "Letter" rather than A4 paper sizes, no matter how many times you tell them otherwise.

I get round this particular issue by always using three-letter month names rather than numbers for the months. This disambiguates the day/month problem, eg: Apr 9 07 is the same as 09 Apr 2007. This always seems to work for data input but the problem is training those pesky users. I use a system that forces them to use three-letter months and will not accept moth numbers so they get used to it in the end

Kind regards

Paul 🙂

matt900 Valued Member Points: 63 More actions · Answer 9

Does not make sense but works for me

"Printed On " & Format(now,"dd/MM/yy")

dva2007 SSCertifiable Points: 7707 More actions · Answer 10

= right(("0" + Cstr(Day(Fields!admdate.Value))),2) + "/" + right(("0" + Cstr(Month(Fields!admdate.Value))),2) + "/" + Cstr(Year(Fields!admdate.Value))

assume your date field name - admdate

rene-500237 Hall of Fame Points: 3769 More actions · Answer 11

Hi,

I could set my format string in the property 'Format' like dd.MM.yyyy and get the correct German date format.

Rgds

apjchandresh SSC Eights! Points: 963 More actions · Answer 12

Hi ,

you can Used this

=Format(Fields!myDate.Value, “MM/dd/yyyy”)

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173045 More actions · Answer 13

Apjchandresh, you're misunderstanding what they're asking for. The format is already MMDDYYYY. They're trying to reverse the day & the month so Day is listed first.

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ryan121 SSC Veteran Points: 244 More actions · Answer 14

has anyone made a 'cheat sheet' for formatting in SSRS? It would be very helpful as I find myself constantly googling date/time formats...

Something like: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/73ctwf33.aspx

=Format(Fields!startdate.Value, "dd/mm/yy")

But refer to url for exact formatting

Cheers,

Ryan