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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Published report date is different on windows and mac

Hi

 

I have published the report on service and the date format is mm/dd/yyyy
when i export the report and open the report with link on windows the date format is same but when i open the same link on mac the date format is dd/mm/yyyy.
I tryied with changing the system date format but its not working for me.
Please help me how can I set the platform indipendent date format.

Thank you

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  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
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    5 years ago

    Anonymous Seems like the regional language settings on you mac or on your mac's browser is set to something other than US English. What browser are you using?

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      Anonymous
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      5 years ago

      Hi Greg_Deckler 

      Thank you for your reply, 
      I got the problem, it was because of the language in the browser. 
      But as per my usecase the date format should not affected by the browser language. 
      can you please help me how can I create date which is not affected by the browser laguage

      Thank you

      • Greg_Deckler's avatar
        Greg_Deckler
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        5 years ago

        Anonymous Well, you could use FORMAT to essentially convert it to a string. Or store it as a string. That's the only way I know of. It's kind of a "feature" that the regional language settings display dates differently depending on who is viewing the report.