Date format in essbase

Hi all,
I need some help in loading dates in my measures. My cube is deployed successfully but , my dates were of the format :
*"yyyy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss"* but essbase only loaded *"yyyy/mm/dd"* . We need to load the timestamp as well.
Please help.

HI,
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