definitions update date incorrect

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AntiSpyware 1.0.701 reports "Your spyware definitions have been updated on
November 2, 2006 at 6:54:12 AM to version 5807." The correct date is February
11, 2006 (month and day have been transposed).
 
This is likely the result of your having a non-default setting for the date
format in Windows on your system.

There are other anomalies that may result from this, including premature
shutdown of Microsoft Antispyware, based on getting the date wrong.

However--I would advise ignoring this for the time being--my expectation is
that beta2 will be available before this issue will likely be anything other
than a visual annoyance for you, and that it will be fixed in beta2.
 
Right, not a big problem but curious since the Last scan date of February 10,
2006 is correct and the expiry date of July 31, 2006 seems ok. Perhaps the
time stamp in definitions file 5807 was corrupted.
 
It'd be interesting to see if this carries through next time defs are
updated. I'd think they would be pretty carefully hashed and checksummed.

The beta1 product has a history of problems with date and time formats--if
your machine is set with a format of other than the top one in the drop down
box--and in some cases other than that default for English (United States)
oddities may result.
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Changing the date format from English (Canada) to English (United States) and
back to English (Canada) corrected the bad date. ISO dates of the format
2006-02-11 were supposed to remove the ambiguity of 02/11/2006 vs 11/02/2006
but their usage doesn't seem to have been univerally adopted.
 
This will work correctly with beta2, but isn't working right in beta1.
Beta1 didn't anticipate a good many localization issues that will be
designed into beta2 from the start.
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