Change date format in dashboard promt and calendar

hi,
do any one know how to change the date format when using the calendar option in dashboard prompt. As the user picks a date from the calendar the format becomes DD-MM-YYYY. The customer would like YYYY-MM-DD!!
Any suggestions?

Hi Jose, i tried to update the settings in the NQSConfig.INI file, but there was no luck.
I would like to mention my issue here again.
I have a dashboard prompt built on a Date Column and I would like to see it as a Calendar Type. The value of this prompt is save in a variable pDate.
In the answer, i have a filter on a date column(This is exactly the same column used to build the Prompt). The filter i set as Advance SQL Filter as I want to use the TimeStampAdd function.
The filter is set as Date_Key = TimeStampAdd(SQL_TSI_DAY, -6, '@{pDate}')
The above request when ran from the dashboard, gives me the following error:
Error Codes: OPR4ONWY:U9IM8TAC:OI2DL65P
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 17001] Oracle Error code: 932, message: ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected DATE got NUMBER at OCI call OCIStmtExecute. [nQSError: 17010] SQL statement preparation failed. (HY000)
SQL Issued: SELECT Calendar."Time Id" saw_0, "Sales Facts"."Amount Sold" saw_1 FROM SH WHERE Calendar."Time Id" = TimeStampAdd(SQL_TSI_DAY, -6, '01/01/2002 12:00:00 AM') ORDER BY saw_0
My understanding is that the Calendar control is populating pDate variable in 'mm/dd/yyyy hh:mi:ss' Format, while the TimeStampAdd function expect the variable as 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:ss:mi' Format.
Is there any other place that we need to update on the server that will force the Calendar to return the prompt value in 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS' Format ?
Thanks
Sai

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