In that case, you wouldn't have to. But this is exactly why people hate the ubiquity of dd/mm/yy and yy/mm/dd wheb dealing with american and european dates I,

In that case, you wouldn't have to. But this is exactly why people hate the ubiquity of dd/mm/yy and yy/mm/dd wheb dealing with american and european dates I, for one, am an enlightened yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss enjoyer which doesn't have such issues.