SSIS XML task date format issue

Question

Hi, there;
I created an SSIS package XML task to import customer XML data.     The LocaleID is set to "New Zealand"
        I have an xml file which has date fields as attribute (dd/MM/yyyy). I created this package and run it in an .NET console program.
    The interesting thing is that: when I run under my own windows account, I can import data into SQL properly (dd/MM/yyyy), but when I run it as scheduled task (under another special windows account) it gives America format (MM/dd/yyyy).
    What I found is that my personal account in AD is set to New Zealand, the special windows account given by the infrastructure engineer
is set to "default"  which is American user.
    So, my question is that is there any way/something we can set in the package or
 XSD somewhere to tell SSIS what the source date format is rather then controlled by the "AD account"?. The reason is that imagine that
if I have 2 XML files from different clients, one is New Zealand date format(dd/MM/yyyy), another one is American date format (MM/dd/yyyy), I want same package (NOT same XML task) to import 2 XML files with result in New Zealand format.
   Thank you in advance.
Cheers
Robert
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Answer 1

Hi Robert,
Based on your description, there are two scenarios:
You want to format the XML file column date with dd/MM/yyyy or MM/dd/yyyy format to dd/MM/yyyy. In this scenario, we can use Derived Column Transformation to convert the MM/dd/yyyy format to dd/MM/yyyy format for the American XML task, then use the new
column maps to the corresponding Destination column. The following expression is for your reference:
LEFT(RIGHT(Column,7),2) + "/" + LEFT(Column,2)+"/"+ RIGHT(Column,4)
The XML file data already import to SQL table, different country people view the data with different date format. Please note that a datetime column is stored as binary in database, the display format is related to the SSMS server. For more details, please
see the following KB:
INF: How to Set the Day/Month/Year Date Format in SQL Server
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
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