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3419615 - Number And Date Format Are Not According To Login Language

Symptom

  • Date format is not according to logged in language, for example it shows date as aaaa-mm-dd and not as dd-mm-aaaa.
  • Decimal numbers are not displayed in the format of the logged in language. 

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Environment

  • SAP Service Cloud v2
  • SAP Sales Cloud v2

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Login to the system and open left menu.
  2. Navigate to Guided selling screen. (This can happen to any screen)
  3. Select All Opportunities query.
  4. In the results list, you will see that the date is like 31 Jul 2024.

Cause

The date format and number format will be taken according to your browser settings. 

Resolution

Please add in the browser languages the required language. Steps for Chrome:

  1. Open Chrome and click on the 3 dots button.
  2. Select Settings.
  3. Navigate to Languages.
  4. Click on Add languages.
  5. Add the required language (e.g. German) and move to the top so it is the first language.  
  6. Close the browser and login again to the system.

After doing the change to German for example, the date and number will be like below:

Keywords

Language, Date, Format, day, month, number, decimal, comma , KBA , CEC-CRM-UX , User Xperience for SAP Sales/Service Cloud , How To

Product

SAP Sales Cloud and SAP Service Cloud Version 2 1.0

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