Date format in Prompt

Hi All,
I am having a problem with the Date format in a Dashboard prompt. Using the following SQL for a default value, I get a date and time result, i.e. yyyy-mm-dd hh:min:ss
SELECT CASE WHEN 1=0 THEN "Leach Center - Visits"."Visit Date"
ELSE CAST(TIMESTAMPADD(SQL_TSI_YEAR, -1, CURRENT_DATE) AS DATE)
END FROM "DSA - Leach Center"
as soon as I click a new date in the calendar it goes to the right format of DD-MM-YYYY.
Any Suggestions?

Hi,
I have the same problem and I try to fetch the patch 92800334 in Metalink/Support, but get no result back/not found. Any ideas??

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