# Drilldown to use system date

**URL:** <https://community.velixo.com/t/drilldown-to-use-system-date/108>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [July 7, 2025, 5:10am UTC](https://community.velixo.com/t/drilldown-to-use-system-date/108 "2025-07-07T05:10:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Allison](https://community.velixo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/90db22/32.png) [@Allison](https://community.velixo.com/u/Allison)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 5:10am UTC](https://community.velixo.com/t/drilldown-to-use-system-date/108/1 "2025-07-07T05:10:20Z")

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Is it possible to use the system region settings for the drilldown?The date defaults to the North American MMDDYYYY format even though the Windows region settings are DDMMYYYY. I’ve had 3 clients ask for this in the last month.

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Name: Allison Wigman | Alchemex  
Excel version: 16.0.18925.20138  
Connection: McCloy Group-imp

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**Author:** ![Velixo\_Team](https://community.velixo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@Velixo\_Team](https://community.velixo.com/u/Velixo_Team)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.velixo.com/t/drilldown-to-use-system-date/108/2 "2025-07-07T20:25:02Z")

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Hi Allison,

Thanks for notifying us of this issue. It will be fixed by R&D - the issue number is RD-4096

Gabriel