I've seen lots of questions going back to 2007 about formatting the date but most have no responses.  Does that mean that nobody at zoho cares to address these questions? 

 

I have set in my application settings for the date to be mm.dd.yyyy.  When I am inside my application and enter something like mm/dd/yyyy the data gets converted to dd.mm.yyyy.  Why?  What is it about using "/" instead of "." that the application decides to change my date?

 

Before you come back and say that I should be using a "/" instead of a "." I will tell you that my application (and indeed most applications) need to be "stupid proof".  That means that my regular (non-technical) user may attempt to use a "/" instead of a "." and the application should be able to keep the date from changing to a different date.

 

I'm I missing something or is there a way to ensure that the date does not get changed just because a "/" is used?

 

Some help (this year) would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks