What does SET DateFormat='M/D/YYYY'; in the data load editor script do?

[#1]

I see that there is SET DateFormat='M/D/YYYY'; line the data load editor script -- I am curious to learn what it does? I had a hypothesis that it formats all fields (from the load section) with "date" datatype to M/D/YYYY format. But that doesn't seem to be true.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[sunny_talwar]

It defaults the format used when you use Date() function. and if you data source has the same format as the one you set up top, QlikView will be able to recognize it as date and bring it as a date field instead of text.

[#3]

Thanks for the reply. So I tested it using a SQL command in the data load editor:

select cast('10/16/2016' as date) "mydate";

Note that the datatype is "date"...but the app is not picking the format M/D/YYYY:

Any ideas?

[sunny_talwar · Accepted solution]

Not sure how the SQL works, but may be do this and see if it helps:

LOAD Date(mydate) as mydate;

Select cast('10/16/2016' as date) "mydate";