Confusion with date attributes and member name / value

Hi,

I'm just wondering about how the best approach is to create a date member... The member name has to be a string, so there seams to be no way that a client application can decide how to display a date (by it's regional settings). You have to do the formatting in the DSV. You can use some formatting with the member value but this isn't used by client applications by default (is there any application using it out there, yet?).

So what's the best approach here?

Thanks,

Hi Thomas,

Could Translations help you (i.e defining different captions for a given date, by locale)?

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Deepak,

yes that might be a solution... However this might be a problem with other datatypes as well... I just think about an attribute "Size" which might be formatted in differently in different regions (with a comma or point as decimal seperator, ...). So everything has to be done with translations? Not a very good approach...

Thanks anyway...