I live in Switzerland; I speak English (and a very slowly increasing amount of German). Switzerland uses DD.MM.YYYY almost exclusively (yes, with dots). I was

I live in Switzerland; I speak English (and a very slowly increasing amount of German). Switzerland uses DD.MM.YYYY almost exclusively (yes, with dots). I was filling in a web form using Google Translate. It took me several phone calls and about two weeks to sort out the problems caused when Translate back-converted some (but not all) of the dates that I'd entered into the form from DD.MM.YYYY to MM.DD.YYYY before submitting. /self rage