Date format according to user region

Hi All,
I have an explorer where data is coming from hana cubes, what i want is :- if a user in usa opens the information space than date should be displayed as mm-dd-yy and for an Indian user it should be dd-mm-yy
I am using bo 4.1 sp3.
thanks in advance,
Yash

Hi Yash,
On the SAP HANA side you must have enabled translations into the different languages for the text. At the same time the date format should also change.
As a test change the locale of the HANA client and retrieve date results:
http://scn.sap.com/thread/3301295
Then according to the Users BI launchpad locale settings, it should format in Indian locale.
Here a link which states that at least the numeric format can also be changed directly in Explorer (I haven't checked the date).
https://ideas.sap.com/ct/ct_a_view_idea.bix?idea_id=81DAB90F-6096-4F78-BB3B-384D1826F337
Denis

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