Date formatting in SSRS 2008 is ignoring my format

  • So I bind a field to a TextBox, go to Text Box Properties, click on Number, click on Date and no matter which dateformat I choose it still displays in the same date format!!!

    The only way I can force it to change the date format is to use an Expression in the value of the textbox using =FormatDateTime(!Field.Value,"vbcrap") which doesn't give me the format I need.

    What am I doing wrong?

  • Is your date field actually a datetime or date field or is it a string that looks alot like a date?

    I created a report that connected to a table with a datetime field and with a string representation of the datetime field. The proper datetime would format to whatever date formatting I chose, but the other, which is just a string, stayed as it appears in the table.

    If it's a string that you are using, then format(, "dd-MMM-yy") would format 30-Apr-09 for example. You'd need to put that in your field expression.

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