Non US date string format

I have csv files (many) with time stamped data in the format ddmmyyyy (and yymmdd). I seem unable to tell Diadem what format to expect and it seems to assume the US format mmddyyyy is good enough!. Short of reformatting all my data time stamps can't I tell Diadem what to expect? (I can only find how to change the format used to display the date).
Thanks, BAS

Hi Brad,
Yes I have been dragging my CSV files from the navigator into the data portal as the Import wizard will not work on these files. See details of error below.
In my CSV files the data delimiter is "," with a date delimiter "-" white space and time delimiter ":" ie[dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm]
I have used the import wizard in the past but when using the ASCII import wizard my current CSV files (with either extension .csv or .txt) I get the error message below after selecting the file, then the wizard closes!
file 525 "C:\....\zz.csv","MB-OK", MsgTypeAlert",1,0,0,501,"WizReport" [OK]
I have attached a partial file sample.
Many thanks for your assistance
BAS
PS as the forum does not accept the extension .csv (!) I have changed it to .txt
Attachments:
zz(ddmmyyyy).txt ‏9 KB

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