In my About box, the "Valid through" displays as 7/8/2015 due to the North American date format.  In Australia, this is interpreted as 7 August 2015 which may cause confusion for some users. 

Can this be changed so that the month is displayed as words instead of a number. In my example, the "Valid through" date would display as 8 July 2015 instead. This should not be do difficult to implement.

Being upside down can be a hassle for us antipodeans. Come up against this issue all the time on the net and always have to go through the mental gymnastics of juggling the numbers just to make you guys (Northern Hemispherians) happy.

promidi
In my About box, the "Valid through" displays as 7/8/2015 due to the North American date format.  In Australia, this is interpreted as 7 August 2015 which may cause confusion for some users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
 

Yeah this is a great idea, I'll see about getting it in our backlog ASAP.

Thanks Willy.

So anyone running into this - can you let me know what you have set for date/time format in windows?
 
You can check this in Control Panel > Region then by selecting the 'Formats' tab.

Actually?  The date display DOES respect your OS region settings, also known as the locale.
Maybe you didn't set that?
 
Control Panel -> Region.
 
Change the Short date to whatever you want.
 
For example I went from 7/1/2015 to 01-Jul-15 without any issue and no code change in SONAR was required.

Windows 8.1. Germal locale. Default settings.
 
Region:
...
Date (short): TT.MM.JJJJ
...
Example:
Date (short): 02.07.2015
 
Clock (right lower corder): 02.07.2015
 
Sonar (not the newest update, so 21.4.0.30):
Valid through: 1/23/2016
 
I have "English" as CCC setting.
 
EDIT: I have not tried to change my locale, but even if that magically will work, Sonar is the only program on my computer which show the date in US format.

Keith Albright [Cakewalk]
Actually?  The date display DOES respect your OS region settings, also known as the locale.

It does not look so. And I think I have found the reason in 15 minutes. But I hope you, as Director of Development, can find it as well...

Willy Jones [Cakewalk]
So anyone running into this - can you let me know what you have set for date/time format in windows?

On my Windows 7 32bit system here are my long and short date formats (My Locale is set to Australia)
Note: These have been intentionally set this way by me as this produces my desired date format when listing files in Windows explorer and in other software.
 
Short Date:    ddd, d MMM yyyy
Long date:     dddd, d MMMM yyyy

FYI: In my Cakewalk About box my "Valid through" date says 8/7/2015   (I know this means August 7 2015)