Another date formatting issue

Question

Apologies if this has been covered before but my search has not produced anything.
I am using BIP in EBS and have a template with the following:
<?format-date:DATE_NOTIFICATION;'dd/MM/yyyy';'Europe/London'?>
<?format-date:DATE_START;'dd/MM/yyyy';'Europe/London'?>
<?format-date:DATE_END;'dd/MM/yyyy';'Europe/London'?>
XML for this is:
<DATE_NOTIFICATION>2010-01-14T00:00:00.000+00:00</DATE_NOTIFICATION>
<SICKNESS_START_DATE>2010-01-04T00:00:00.000+00:00</SICKNESS_START_DATE>
<SICKNESS_END_DATE>2010-01-06T00:00:00.000+00:00</SICKNESS_END_DATE>
When the concurrent request runs output is produced in either excel (most likely) or pdf. View the output from the concurrent request and everything is fine.
However if you view the excel output and then save it to your PC as MS EXCEL XML or MS Excel Workbook format, then open that local copy of the spreadsheet in MS Excel some of the dates are formatted incorrectly as follows:
Notified Date 14/01/2010 - CORRECT
Actual Absence Start Date 01/04/2010 - INCORRECT not the transposition of the day and month to the US format mm/dd/yyyy
Actual Absence End Date 01/06/2010 - INCORRECT not the transposition of the day and month to the US format mm/dd/yyyy
I am guessing this is something to do with the nationality which would be US in EBS but UK on the local PC, however what I don't understand is the inconsistency, if all dates were incorrectly formatted then fine you can work with it but when some are correct and others are not it gets a bit tricky to deal with.
Has anyone seen this before, is it a known bug?
Cheers,
Dave

Answer 1

Osgood gave you the above that you said works.
.paragraph_spacing {
margin: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
padding: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
you need to set up another class if you want it to have
different styles....
.specialparagraph {
margin-bottom: whatever px you want here;}
and then apply the class to the one paragraph
<p class="specialparagraph"> whatever text here
</p>
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"Beverly" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Works great! One more question for you...
>
> The CSS works great for all my standard paragraphs. Now,
I have one
> paragraph that I want to make a slight deviation to - I
want to drop the
> bottom margin on just one of the paragraphs. Do I have
to create an
> entirely new CSS style with all of the elements from the
current style and
> make the modification on the bottom margin - or is there
someway to just
> quickly drop that bottom margin, but only for this one
paragraph?
>
> Thanks!!
>