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Change Request: Reports - Date format

Could Vipre be modified to allow the UK date format (DD/MM/YYYY) to be used as opposed to the default US date format (MM/DD/YYYY)?

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Definitely.  I don't know why the date format doesn't automatically match the date format configured for Windows.

Still haven't fixed this bug in Vipre 2015?  I just looked at the firewall history and it's showing m/d/yyyy - which is a bug.  As Matty Brown said, it should use the Windows date format.

OP - you make it sound like a enhancement request - it's actually a bug.  Lazy coding using US-only date formats.

Please fix.

History in vipre I.S. 2014 used the correct date-format, by the way...

I agree - this is a bug! The date format should either use the date format that the user has selected in Windows' Region settings, or at least provide the user with the option to set as desired.

Is anyone going to answer these people?

I have just added another Topic for this exact problem.

The US custom of using mmddyy has caused problems all over the world. It is not and has never been correct. If you were writing time or geographical coordinates, would you mix up the order of the seconds, minutes and hours or degrees? No. That I might say "January 8th, 2019" (month, day, year), or say  "one minute and 30 seconds after ten o'clock" (min, sec, hour) when speaking, has no bearing on what the correct format is. As a matter of fact, other languages that I am familiar with do NOT say the date that way. Numerical formatting is supposed to be universal. And it goes from general to particular. It might run from particular to general in some cases, but it never, never is written out of sequence.  It has nothing to do with how North American English speakers say the date in words. As a matter of fact, in England, the letterhead date is written 8 Jan 2019 on formal correspondence. 
 The US format of mmddyy is just illogical and wrong and makes communication with the rest of the world very difficult.  

The easy answer is to link the the VIPRE date format to the date format which is set in Control Panel/Settings in each and every computer.
This way, everyone is happy all around the world.
Come on ThreatTrack Security - please make the change - it shouldn't be that hard.

There is "Date and Time" under Control Panel Settings, but I see nowhere in it a place to change formats.
Win 8.1. Is it somewhere else?

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