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Date formatting in date slicer

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Kevin H on 01 Apr 2017 02:19:51

The improved date slicer is great. However, when using it in Between/Before/After mode, I want the dates to be displayed in the same way as in List/Dropdown mode. (That is, the way I've formatted them in my Power BI data model.)

For example, we format all of our dates like '2017-03-31'. But in Between/Before/After mode, the date slicer always displays dates like '3/31/2017'.

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b07cf59e 2870-4d3f-a511-ac08c9a041c7 on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:42

RE: Date formatting in date slicer

ISO yyyy-mm-dd date format is a hard requirement in my international organization.

Don't understand why the slicer doesn't just pass through the format of the underlying date field ...

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857f2bf3 37c7-4f8b-928d-769ba2172000 on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:33

RE: Date formatting in date slicer

Yes! This!

Why are americans still trying to impose the strange dd/mm/YYYY date format when the rest of the world knows better. The ISO 8601 format of YYYY-mm-dd is just as short and has the benefit of being both non-ambiguous and _international standard_!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601