Really, who's responsible for the default date format used by the forum? The current setting is the worst of all worlds, it's neither US-American, Japanese nor European or whatever. What makes me really angry is the use of hyphen in the date. The only date format which uses hyphen is ISO 8601 which is "The international standard date notation" and looks like 2006-08-10. In many countries it has already replaced the former official local date notation. In other words, everybody should be using it:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

Unfortunately, since this forums exists, this is no longer true:
"can not be confused with other popular date notations"

Thank you very much.