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Status Delivered
Categories Front End
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 24, 2019

Enhance Licence Manager date configuration

For LMS, both on-screen and via download, the date/timestamp field comes across as
DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss (in GMT for downloads)

This format (day-month-year) makes it impossible to filter or sort by any type of date without doing manipulation for all rows.
To make this very obvious, here are 5 entries in entry/date order
2018 Jan 2
2018 Jan 27
2018 Feb 3
2019 Jan 22
2019 Mar 1

These would datestamp as
02/01/2018
27/01/2018
03/02/2018
22/01/2019
01/03/2019

And would sort as
01/03/2019 2019 Mar 1
02/01/2018 2018 Jan 2
03/02/2018 2018 Feb 3
22/01/2019 2019 Jan 22
27/01/2018 2018 Jan 27

I request update of the displayed and downloaded format of the LMS date field to be in logical year-month-date order so that manipulation of the date field will no longer be required to make the data easily usable.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Mar 9, 2023
    This feature was delivered in version 15.0.
  • Guest
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    Mar 4, 2021

    Planned for future release.