SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2363138 - Changing the Date of Birth Format - EC

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

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions