CSViewer sorting issue with text dates

CSViewer is not correctly sorting my dates in d-M-yyyy format

Tried to set a format to dd/MM/yyyy but this does not resolve the issue

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Datatype is detected as all text (source is a .csv file)

@Paul_Verkooijen Column format only affects date and datetime values, stored as numbers (in the OLE Automation Date format). Since all the values in the TT_DATE column are text, they are sorted as text regardless of the chosen Column format.

Hi @andrew.rybka , I get that, only it’s an CSV file and cannot manipulate the content for viewing.

Excel has no issues detecting the date format

d-M-yyyy is a default for Europe, Asia. and a lot of other countries

So it would be great if CSViewer could be set to/detect more formats

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Note taken. The topic has been moved to Feature requests

As a workaround, you can use (the free edition of) EasyMorph Desktop to view the file. There, you can use the "Convert data type" action to convert text dates into number dates.

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