Date format in obiee reports

HI guys
i got two obiee server running in our env . both are identical . on one server when ever we rite any report with date column in it it comes up with dd/mm/yyyy output on another server if we right any report all the date column comes with dd mon yyyy format .. i want both of them should show date like dd mon yyyy format .. i checked all the conf files are both are looking same still not able to figure out where should i change for this to work .
please let me know if you need more info from my end.
Regards,
Dev

HI Kishore
Thanks for your reply i checked all the things but with no success. do think there could be any other place where i should check .
1. nqsconfig date format
its same for both the two installations
DATE_TIME_DISPLAY_FORMAT = "yyyy/mm/dd hh:mi:ss" ;
DATE_DISPLAY_FORMAT = "yyyy/mm/dd" ;
TIME_DISPLAY_FORMAT = "hh:mi:ss" ;
2. make sure that you didn't save date format in column properties from front-end
Just checked and we havan't saved anything in column properties .. even i created new report as well but still format was same ..
3. Did you mention anything in connection pool settings to set date format.
no we havan't mention anything in connection pool
4. Make sure that you are connecting to same database, and date format set for date is same here and there
yahh both the two installatiosn are connected to same database .. but not sure about "date format set for date is same here and there
" hw i can check this
finally, check this: http://108obiee.blogspot.com/2009/04/changing-date-format-mask-in-javascript.html
no its not on one column .. its to all the date format columns on all the reports .. so i think its not case with me .
please let me know if you need more info
Regards,
Dev

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