Symptom
When using English (US) language, the date of birth format showing in the Personal Information details is in mm/dd/yyyy.
Environment
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
Cause
- The date format is controlled by the user's locale.
- If you are using the English UK Local, and go to Employee's Information (Personal/Employment) you can see the field displays in dd/mm/yyyy.
- While if you are using the English (US) locale, the fields display as mm/dd/yyyy.
- Below are the date formats used for each language:
Language |
Date Format |
Brasil |
dd/mm/yy |
Canadian French |
yy-mm-dd |
Chinese |
yy-mm-dd |
Croatian |
mm.dd.yy |
Czech |
mm.dd.yy |
Danish |
dd/mm/yy |
Dutch |
dd-mm-yy |
Finnish |
dd.mm.yy |
French |
dd/mm/yy |
German |
dd.mm.yy |
Greek |
dd/mm/yy |
Hungarian |
yy.mm.dd |
Indonesia |
dd/mm/yy |
Italiano |
dd/mm/yy |
Japanese |
yy/mm/dd |
Korean |
yy.mm.dd |
Malay |
dd/mm/yy |
Mexico |
dd/mm/yy |
Norwegian |
mm/dd/yy |
Polish |
yy-mm-dd |
Romanian |
dd.mm.yy |
Russian |
dd.mm.yy |
Siemens |
mm/dd/yy |
Slovak |
dd.mm.yy |
Spanish |
dd/mm/yy |
Swedish |
yy-mm-dd |
Swiss |
dd.mm.yy |
Taiwan |
yy/mm/dd |
Turkish |
mm.dd.yy |
UK |
dd/mm/yy |
US |
mm/dd/yy |
Vietnamese |
dd/mm/yy |
Resolution
As this date format is hard-coded in the system, an enhancement request can be raised in order to change the date format for a specific language used.
For example, use format dd/mm/yyyy for US.
See Also
KB article 2090228 - How to Submit Enhancement Requests for SAP SuccessFactors Products
Keywords
SF success factors EC DOB , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-PER-PRS , Personal Info - Config, Rules, RBP, UI , LOD-SF-EC-PER , Person Data (All Person Data Types) , LOD-SF-EC-PER-BIO , Biographical Info - Config, Rules, RBP, UI , Product Enhancement