Custome column sort by date not title

After a lot of guess work and research I’ve managed to come up with a simple solution.

function column_orderby( $vars ) {
    $vars['orderby'] = 'date';
    $vars['order'] = 'desc';
    return $vars;
}
add_filter( 'request', 'column_orderby' );

This will sort all of the columns by ‘date’ as well as order them by ‘desc’!

Hope it helps anyone in the same situation as me 🙂