[Bug]: Sql server profiler StartTime column shows "Invalid Date"

[lightinen]

Description

Sql server profiler StartTime column shows "Invalid Date"

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create connection with Microsoft SQL server
2. Open connections tab
3. Select profiler
4. Use "Standard_OnPrem" Template

Affected Area

• Connection dialog (SQL Server | Azure browse/Fabric browse)
• Query editor
• Query results panel
• Object Explorer
• GitHub Copilot integration
• Preview/Edit data
• Table Designer
• Schema Designer
• Schema Compare
• Local SQL Server Container provisioning
• SQL database in Fabric provisioning
• DACPAC/BACPAC export/import
• SQL Database projects
• Query Plan Visualizer
• Other (please describe below)

If you selected "Other", please describe the affected area

SQL Profiler(preview)

Environment Information

ExtVersion: 1.40.0
ServerVersion: 14.0.1000.169
ServerOsVersion: Windows Server 2019 Standard 10.0
Version: 1.109.5
Commit: 072586267e68ece9a47aa43f8c108e0dcbf44622
Date: 2026-02-19T19:43:32.382Z
Electron: 39.3.0
ElectronBuildId: 13313481
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.12.74-1-lts

Confirmation

• I have searched existing issues and couldn't find a match
• I want to work on this issue

[allancascante]

@lightinen Thank you for reporting this issue. We believe this may be related to the locale/language settings on your SQL Server or OS. Could you please provide the following information to help us investigate?

1. SQL Server language and locale

Run these queries on the SQL Server where you see the issue and share the results:

-- Server default language
SELECT @@LANGUAGE AS ServerLanguage;

-- Default language for your login
SELECT name, default_language_name 
FROM sys.server_principals 
WHERE name = SUSER_SNAME();

-- Server collation
SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('Collation') AS ServerCollation;

-- Current date format setting
DBCC USEROPTIONS;

2. OS locale

What is the locale/language of the machine running SQL Server? (e.g., en-US)
What is the locale/language of the machine running VS Code?
On Linux (since your VS Code is on Linux):

locale

On the SQL Server host (Windows Server 2019):

Get-Culture | Select-Object Name, DisplayName, DateTimeFormat

[kburtram]

Closing based on merged PRs. Please let us know if this issue persists in the March release planned for next week.