topic Date Formats in QlikView

Date Formats

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Can someone please suggest why:

When I reload my QV app on my PC, the dates appear in the correct UK format… i.e. DD/MM/YYYY

But when they are reloaded on the QlikView server, they are in the American format, MM/DD/YYYY

I have checked the server and region is set to UK.

I am connecting using ODBC and both machines have been set up identically using the same driver version etc.

Whilst the date can be formatted in the script - I was hoping to understand the reason to avoid any coding.

Date Formats

Wed, 09 May 2012 08:52:02 GMT

Hi IBI-Keeble,

I have exactly the same issue with my dates language format. Did you finally find a solution to solve it ?

Thanks in advance,

Julien

Date Formats

Bill_Britt — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:21:28 GMT

Can you upload a sample document that you are having the issue with. Something small, that can be reloaded, that will show the issue?

Date Formats

Thu, 10 May 2012 08:18:26 GMT

Unfortunately, I can't.

My settings :

SET DateFormat='DD-MMM-YYYY';

Windows XP SP3 Regional Settings : French

I split my process into two steps :

Step 1 - LOAD.qvw : QlikView loads tables from the database via ODBC and store them in QVD files.

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MONTH:

SQL

...

TO_CHAR("MTH_END_DT",'DD-mon-YYYY') as "MTH_END_DT",

...

FROM <database>.<table>

store MONTH into MONTH.qvd(qvd);

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Here, date format is right, as specified in SQL code (DD-mon-YYYY). Language is english (but my regional settings are set in French). It's exactly what I want.

Ex: 02-feb-2012

Step 2 - TRANSFORM.qvw : QlikView loads in a "transform" file, all QVDs my application requires to build data model.

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Month:

LOAD

MTH_END_DT

FROM MONTH.qvd (qvd);

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As you can see, no transformation is applied on my date field. Despite that, date format gets more than 3 characters (4, 5 characters, depends on month short name) and language turns to french.

Ex: 02-févr.-2012

My questions are : What does Qlikview do with dates when it loads QVD ? How date format language is set regardless regional settings ?

Thanks in advance,

Julien