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2873861 - Error: 'Bad date format string.' when refreshing a report in Crystal Reports

Symptom

  • Error: Bad date format string.
  • The same report refresh successfully on a different computer.
  • Function: cDate, generates an error when attempting to convert a string, to a date.
  • When refreshing a report that contains a formula to convert a string to a date, Crystal Reports fails with the error:
            
       "Bad date format string."
        
       Bad Date Format.png


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Environment

  • SAP Crystal Reports 2011
  • SAP Crystal Reports 2013
  • SAP Crystal Reports 2016 

Product

SAP Crystal Reports 2011 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2013 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2016

Keywords

CR, CR Date , KBA , BI-RA-CR , Crystal Reports designer or Business View Manager , Problem

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